Name: Aidas Gudaitis

Location: Vilnius

Caving club: Aenigma

Contacts: aidas[eta]speleo.lt; tel.: 8-686-17481

Main expeditions and caves:
1985 summer - Vorontsovo, northwest Caucasus, Russia, leader V. Gudaitis. Vorontsovskaya system.
1986 spring - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader V. Gudaitis. Caves: Dubljansky, Skazka, Viola.
1986 summer - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader A. Yefremov. Caves: Podsnezhnik.
1987 summer - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader D. Diakin. Caves: Nadezhda, Podsnezhnik.
1991 spring - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader V. Gudaitis. Caves: Kruber, Monastyr'-Tchokrak, Dubljansky, 200 let Simferopoliu.
1993 spring - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader V. Gudaitis. Caves: Kruber, Monastyr'-Tchokrak, Dubljansky, 200 let Simferopoliu, Viola.
1994 spring - Ay-Petri, Crimea, Ukraine, leader V. Gudaitis. Cave: Kaskadnaya (-450 m).
1996 spring - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader A. Gudaitis. Caves: Kruber, Monastyr'-Tchokrak, Dubljansky, 200 let Simferopoliu, Viola, Venta.
1997 summer - Parmelan, the Alp mountains, France, leader J. F. Ray. Caves: Exalibur, La Deu (-650 m).
1998 winter - the Tatra Mountains, Poland. Caves: źimna, Mroźna.
2000 autumn - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader A. Gudaitis. Caves: Kruber, Monastyr'-Tchokrak, 200 let Simferopoliu, Molodezhnaya, Kaskadnaya.
2001 July - the Velebit mountains, Croatia, leader A. Gudaitis. Caves: Lukina Jama (-1200 m).
2002 autumn - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader A. Gudaitis. Caves: Nakhimovskaya (-390 m).
2003 autumn - Alek, northwest Caucasus, Russia, leader R. Daniūnas. Cave: Osenniaya (-550 m).
2004 spring - Alek, northwestn Caucasus, Russia, leader A. Gudaitis. Cave: Nazarovskaya.
2004 summer - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader A. Yefremov. Caves: Iljukhinskaya (-970 m).
2005 spring - Alek, northwest Caucasus, Russia, leader A. Aksionov. Caves: Shkolnaya, Gigantov.
2005 summer - the Tatra Mountains, Poland, leader A. Gudaitis. Cave: Ptasia studnia.
2005 summer - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader A. Yefremov. Caves: Iljukhinskaya (-970 m), Nadezhda.
2006 January - Ternopol, west Ukraine, leader A. Gudaitis/A. Aksionov. Caves: Mlynki, Ugrinskaya.
2006 May - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader R. Daniūnas. Caves: Bol'shoj Buzluk, Mir, Venta, Bely Suslik, Rezonansnaya, Karabijskaya-3, Suvorovskaya.
2006 summer - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader A. Yefremov. Caves: Iljukhinskaya, Nadezhda, Belaja Loshad, Kolodets Nevskogo.
2006 December/2007 January - Ternopol, west Ukraine. Horizontal caves: Optimistitcheskaya, Mlynki, Ugrinskaya.
2007 spring - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader A. Gudaitis. Caves: Soldatskaya (-280), Venta, Monastyr'-Tchiokrak.
2007 August - the Pyrenees, Spain. The Arañonera cave system. International caving camp. Exploration.
2007 December/2008 January - the district of Graz, Austria, leader A.Gudaitis. Caves: Drachenhöhle, Trahüttenhöhle.
2008 March - Nothern Ireland, leader Stephen Macnamara. Caves: Shannon, Marble Arch and others.
2008 April/May - Alek massif, the Caucasus, Russia, leader A. Gudaitis. Caves: Osenniaya, Nazarovskaya, Geographitcheskaya.
2008 August/September - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader Y. Kasyan. Cave: Krubera-Voronya (-1810 m).
2009 spring - Alek, northwest Caucasus, Russia, leader A. Aksionov. Caves: Gigantov, Zabludshyh, Shkolnaya. Dived through the first siphon of the cave Gigantov (-4 m, 14 m).
2009 August/September - the Arabika Massif, the west Caucasus, Georgia, leader A. Gudaitis. Cave: Krubera-Voronya (-2140 m). Dived through the siphon Kvitotchka (-3 m, 15 m) located at the depth of 1970 m.
2010 February - Bzyb' massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader Evgeniy Snetkov. Expedition of cave divers in the cave of Mchishta. Dived through the cave entrance's siphon Vhodnoy (-45 m, 250m). Descent to the cave Akshasha (-350 m).
2010 August - the Arabika Massif, the west Caucasus, Abkhazia (Georgia), leader A. Gudaitis. Cave: Krubera-Voronya (-2140 m).

Additional information:

2006 February - 2008 November - President of the Lithuanian caving club "Aenigma".

2006 - 2007 - the member of Ukrainian Speleological Association.
2006 May - the participant of cave rescue courses (Crimea, Ukraine).
2006 - took the 3rd place in caving technique competition of "Aukštuminės statybų technologijos" cup in Panevėžys, Lithuania (men category).
2006 - took the 1st place in caving technique competition Speleo Pagonija, Lithuania (men category).

Area of interest in speleology: bats, photography, diving, application of GIS in speleology.

Deepest descent: -2140 m (the cave Krubera-Voronya, Abkhazia (Georgia)). Lithuanian deepest descent record since 2009.

Deepest cave diving: the entrance siphon of Mchishta (-45m).