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John makes a decision to split up and explore an un-mapped route. As he goes deeper into the cave, he gets stuck in a small passageway. As he tries to go back and free himself, he falls into an even smaller hole and passes out. John wakes up upside down in an 18-inch wide hole and realizes he is completely stuck.
"Being upside down, your body has to pump the blood out of the brain all the time," Doug Murdock, the trauma physician on site, told The Salt Lake Tribune in 2010. "Your body isn't set up to do ...
The cave's popularity had caused excessive smoothing of the rock inside the cave to the point it was predicted a fatality would occur in one of the cave's more prominent features, a 45-degree room called "The Big Slide". A gate was installed on May 24, 2006, and the cave was temporarily closed. In early 2009, proper management was established ...
Oscar Hackett Neil Moss (28 July 1938 [1] – 23 March 1959) was a British student who died in a caving accident. A twenty-year-old undergraduate studying philosophy at Balliol College, Oxford, Moss became jammed underground, 1,000 feet (300 m) from the entrance, [2] after descending a narrow unexplored shaft in Peak Cavern, a famous cave system in Castleton in Derbyshire, on 22 March 1959.
A Malaysian climber likely died of exposure and altitude-related illness earlier this week after sheltering for days in a snow cave with minimal survival gear near the top of Denali, North America ...
A dramatic and complex international rescue operation to save an American man from one of Turkey’s deepest caves ended successfully on Tuesday – more than a week after after he fell seriously ...
[b] [2] [4] 9 club members went to Kodaikanal to visit Guna Caves. [4] [1] A sign in Tamil indicated that the area was a prohibited area where 13 people had died; however, the group could not read Tamil and proceeded to cross the dilapidated fence. [4] Subhash, who had wanted to go into the 100-foot deep cave, tripped and fell inside. [2]
An American cave rescuer has himself been stuck in a cave since Saturday, after falling ill while traveling in Turkey. More than 150 rescuers are involved in the “complex” operation to save ...