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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
One American man is dead, and an American woman is injured in Iceland following a collapse of the Breiðamerkurjökull ice cave, Iceland’s public broadcaster RUV said Monday.
Subhash, who had wanted to go into the 100-foot deep cave, tripped and fell inside. [2] His friend Abhilash John was the first to notice his fall and informed the rest of the friend group. [ 4 ] When the friend group made contact with locals they were advised to leave to avoid trouble. [ 4 ]
Stairway built by Floyd and his brothers leading down to Great Crystal Cave Collins entrance to Great Crystal Cave. In September 1917, while climbing up a bluff on the Collins farm, Floyd noticed cool air coming from a hole in the ground. Upon widening the hole, he was able to drop down into a cavity that was part of a passage blocked by ...