Worlds Highest Caves

As we mentioned before, it a bit tricky with world records in speleology. So this is a list of high caves, which means caves with a high entrance, not caves with a big distance between highest and lowest point. Those are called deep caves.

Elevation	Name	Location	Length	Vertical Range	Description
6,765m asl (?)	unnamed (?)	Pakistan
6,645m asl	Cave of Rakiot Peak	On Rakiot Peak (7070 m), near Nanga Parbat, Kashmere, India	75m (estimated)		Supposedly the worlds highest cave was discovered in 1963 by climbers.
4,930m asl	Qaqa Mach'ay	Peru		125m	claimed to be the highest surveyed cave (2004 multinational Andes expedition)
4,800m asl	Cueva de Saco	Peru
4,600m asl	Rangkul'skaja (Syjkyrduu)	Pamir, Tajikistan
4,585m asl	Cueva Puyo	Peru		48m
4,570m asl	Tragadero Puyo	Peru		107m
4,500m asl	Cueva de Sanson Machay	Peru
4,500m asl	Cueva de Pachacayo	Peru
4,400m asl	Cueva de Laurichoca	Peru
4,375m asl	Sima Pumacocha	Peru
4,000m asl	Cueva de Taypunta	Peru
3,992m asl	Sima de Milpu	Peru		407m
3,750m asl	Ulugh Beg	Uzbekistan
3,720m asl	Cueva de Chirimachay	Peru
3,100m asl	Ghar Parau	Iran		751m
3,050m asl	Aven de la Cascade du Marboré	France
3,010m asl	Grotte de la Mortice	France
2,680	Grotte du Mont-Cenis	Alps, France
2,560	Rotloch	Switzerland
2,525	Abisso Gaché	Alps, Italy
2,427	Drachenloch	Switzerland
2,426	Triglav Pothole	Slovenia
2,093	Gouffre SC (upper entrance of the Pierre-St-Martin)	Spain

Unfortunately we do not have very much info on most of these caves. Several caves have never been visited by cavers and there are no surveys and no publications. So it is rather difficult to make a good list.

Worlds Highest Caves

See also