Karst is a complex landscape with distinctive topography that has been shaped by the dissolving action of waters to form unique surface and subsurface features. The word originally comes from Italian Carso and Serbian-Croatian Kras for a limestone plateau in the Dinaric Alps of Northwest Slovenia. To us at Karst Sports we have made it our name to relate toward any activity that may take place in and around a Karst area such as Caving, Rock Climbing, Paddling, Mountain Biking, Hiking, Mountain and Wilderness Rescue, etc...