# Life of Thomas Kutas > Life of Thomas Kutas: an interactive timeline spanning Mar 24, 1945 to Jul 1, 2026 with 21 events, published on Linecept. - Source: https://www.linecept.com/p/life-of-thomas-kutas-nuo8x5 - Published: Jul 30, 2026 - Time span: Mar 24, 1945 – Jul 1, 2026 - Timezone: UTC - Timelines: 8 - Events: 21 - Contributors: David Kutas ## Timelines - Explorations in the Bükk Mountains (Jan 1, 1960 – Dec 31, 2005): Kutas's home range — where he learned to cave as a teenager and returned throughout his life to study its caves, springs, and karst. - The Szepesi Cave (Jan 1, 1961 – Dec 31, 1964): The Kis-fennsík breakthrough that made Kutas's name — the 1962 descent that revealed Hungary's deepest cave. - The Aggtelek Karst & Jósvafő (Jan 1, 1964 – Dec 31, 2005): From a 1964 invitation to the Jósvafő research station to the discoveries in the Baradla system — Kutas's decades in Hungary's greatest karst. - Thomas Kutas — Life (Mar 24, 1945 – Jul 1, 2026): The central lifeline: a miners'-country teenager who became a leading figure of modern Hungarian caving. - Hungary's Deepest Cave (Jun 9, 1962): The night the Szepesi Shaft gave up its main branch — Hungary's deepest cave at the time. - Baradla-tetői-zsomboly Discovered (Apr 11, 1986): The Eger Alpine Club discovery in the Aggtelek Karst, now a protected World Heritage cave. - The Life-Saving Medal (Jan 1, 1990): National recognition for a rescue in the Szepesi Shaft. - The NSS Congress (Jan 1, 1994): A month in the United States among the world's cavers. ## Events (chronological) - Mar 24, 1945: Born in 1945 — Kutas Tamás was born on 24 March 1945. He would become a Hungarian cave explorer and speleologist, and a leading figure in the rise of modern Hungarian sport and recreational… - Jan 1, 1960: First Steps Underground — In 1960, in his early teens, Kutas began taking on progressively more demanding hikes in the Bükk Mountains with friends. He soon met miners from around Miskolc who explored… - Jan 1, 1960: A Teenager in the Hills — His caving life began in 1960, in his early teens, with hikes in the Bükk that grew into serious underground exploration. - Jun 1, 1961: Turning to the Kis-fennsík — After the known Bükk caves, Kutas and his companions turned to the Kis-fennsík ('Little Plateau'), where small groups were probing the barely-explored Szepesi Shaft… - Jun 1, 1961: Learning the Bükk — He and his companions worked their way through all the then-known caves of the Bükk, building the experience that would soon push them toward harder, unexplored ground. - Jun 9, 1962: Breakthrough — 9 June 1962 — On the night of 9 June 1962, with Kálmán Molnár and István Bödör, Kutas pushed past the previously blocked passages into the horizontal main branch — discovering what was then the… - Jun 9, 1962: The Deepest in the Land — The 9 June 1962 descent into the Szepesi Shaft's horizontal main branch revealed what was then the deepest cave in Hungary — the discovery that made Kutas's name in the caving… - Jan 1, 1963: First Cave Dives — In the period that followed, exploration of the shaft continued — including its first cave-diving descents. - Jan 1, 1964: Invited to Jósvafő — Despite his youth, in 1964 Professor Ferenc Papp — head of Mineralogy and Geology at the Budapest University of Technology — invited Kutas to the research station established in… - Jan 1, 1965: The Research Circle — There he met László Maucha, Péter Adamkó, and Péter Borzsák, exploring the Aggtelek Karst with them — work later formalized under Gábor Magyari, director of the Baradla Cave. - Jan 1, 1968: Springs and Karst Wells — From 1968 to 1972 Kutas monitored springs and karst wells across the entire Bükk, first under Hubert Kessler and later under István Sárvári. - Jan 1, 1975: The Vöröskő Spring — In 1975 Kutas helped design and build the Vöröskő ('Red Stone') Spring with Vince Apostol and Dr. Géza Tóth. It has since become a notable attraction of the Bükk. - Jan 1, 1986: A Leading Figure — By the 1980s Kutas had become one of the central figures of Hungarian caving — a discoverer of major caves and a fixture of the clubs and expeditions around him. - Apr 11, 1986: A New Cave in the Karst — On 11 April 1986 Kutas led the Eger Alpine Club group that discovered the Baradla-tetői-zsomboly, later strictly protected and part of the Aggtelek–Slovak Karst World Heritage… - Apr 11, 1986: Discovering the Baradla-tetői-zsomboly — On 11 April 1986, leading a group from the Eger Alpine Club, Kutas helped discover the Baradla-tetői-zsomboly in the Aggtelek Karst. - Jan 1, 1988: The Ten-Day Expedition — In 1988 he joined a ten-day underground expedition in the Baradla Cave that opened new passages and produced archaeological finds. - Jan 1, 1990: Életmentő Emlékérem — In 1990 Kutas received the Life-Saving Commemorative Medal (Életmentő Emlékérem) from the Prime Minister of the Republic of Hungary, for the heroic rescue he performed that year… - Jan 1, 1994: Among the World's Cavers — In 1994 Kutas attended the National Speleological Society (NSS) congress in the United States, touring caves on a month-long expedition and helping raise Hungary's profile in the… - Jan 1, 1995: A World Heritage Cave — The Baradla-tetői-zsomboly has been strictly protected within Aggtelek National Park since 1993 and — together with the caves of the Aggtelek and Slovak Karst — a UNESCO World… - Jan 1, 1998: Coming Full Circle — From the late 1990s his attention turned back to the Bükk and the Aggtelek Karst — the two landscapes that had defined his life underground. - Jan 1, 2000: Still Underground — Into his later years he kept returning to the Bükk and the Aggtelek Karst, the landscapes that had defined his life. --- This is an interactive timeline published on Linecept. 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