The Gournier Cave is located near Choranche in the Vercors Massif in south-eastern France. The entrance is at an altitude of 572 m (1,877 ft) at the base of a cliff on the Presles plateau. It is one of the exsurgences (points at which an underground stream reaches the surface if stream has no known surface headwaters)[1] of the Coulmes massif, and the cave is considered by many speleologists to be the most beautiful underground river in the Alps.[2]
^"Karstgeology: Karst Spring". Show Caves of the World. Retrieved 2023-10-28.
^Caillault, Serge; Haffner, Dominique; Krattinger, Thierry (1997). Spéléo sportive dans le Vercors (in French). Vol. 1. Edisud. p. 93. ISSN 0764-2520.
The GournierCave is located near Choranche in the Vercors Massif in south-eastern France. The entrance is at an altitude of 572 m (1,877 ft) at the base...
in a flood in GournierCave in November 1976. The highest entrance of the system is at 2,332 m (7,651 ft). The lowest point of the cave is at −1,733 m...
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