But with each tug, they could lift John a little higher.Īfter being pulled upward for the third time, John was finally carried high enough to make eye contact with the rescuer nearest to him.
They frequently took breaks since John was sometimes in excruciating discomfort. They tugged together as a tandem of eight guys. When the rescuers eventually finished setting up their pulley system and began bringing John out, everything changed. Following that, they attempted to employ a rope-pully system, securing the pullies with bolts and driving the bolts deep into the cave walls. Rescuers spent time feverishly trying to use their initial system of climbing cams, but they were unsuccessful.
The rescuers could see only his feet due to his virtually upside-down position, and because the roof above them hung so low, they could not simply pull him out due to his feet getting in the way. John’s body’s positioning further hampered things. After hearing about the situation on her rescue pager, she instantly stopped what she was doing and sped to the location in her Toyota. Once outside, he immediately called for assistance, leaving their pal to stay with John.Ī local rescue volunteer named Susan was the first to arrive to assist. Josh went back to the ground as quickly as he could, slowly wriggling out of the narrow space and rushing to the surface after they both muttered a short prayer. Although his feet and ankles were free, they served little purpose as gravity dragged him downward. John could not move because one hand was pinned beneath him, and the other was pushed aside. He let John go and slid back into the gap as soon as he did. Josh attempted to pull John out of the rock out of fear for how deeply it had sucked him in but could only raise him a small distance.
Josh, Josh’s brother, was the first to locate John. All John could do while trapped more than 100 feet underground and in the cave’s depths was wait and pray. He was squeezed into a space only ten by 18 inches wide.Įxcept that it wasn’t a complete circle and he was confined to the narrowest area of the entrance, this size is comparable to the opening of a front-loading washing machine. In addition, he could not turn back on his own because he had wriggled into a crevice that virtually descended straight down. In any event, John persisted until he was unable to go on. The end of Ed’s Push features four undiscovered tunnels, but they are all too narrow for a person to pass through (instead, if he pushed into the Scout Eater, it has a similar-sized route that only goes up). At least nowhere a 6-foot-2, 200-pound man can fit it leads nowhere. Contradictory information on the internet makes it difficult to determine whether John entered the Birth Canal, turned unintentionally, and wriggled into the Scout Eater, or if he completely missed it and entered Ed’s Push, a corridor right next to the Birth Canal.Įd’s Push no longer opens up to a bigger room. John moved ahead with assurance, possibly realizing the tunnel grew larger at the bottom, but it was already too late.įifty feet earlier, everything went wrong.
He moved a little more, but the tight space didn’t widen instead, it took a sudden downward curve. The first to move was John, who wriggled ahead for a while but failed to notice any wider area. The Big Slide, the cave’s largest room, had been explored by the group.Īs time passed, John, Josh, and two of their pals decided to attempt a challenge they had heard about: traversing the Birth Canal, a complex corridor that finally leads to a larger room. on Wednesday, a few days before Thanksgiving.īy caving standards, it was a sizable group that ultimately entered the Nutty Putty Cave since others joined them: nine additional friends and acquaintances had joined them.įor over an hour, everything went without a hitch. The brothers’ John and Josh, decided to rediscover their love for caving on Novemand chose Nutty Putty Cave as their next adventure. John had just become a father, was pursuing his pediatric cardiology training, and his wife was expecting their second child at the time of the accident. John was a devoted Christian who was known for his “good nature, a delightful sense of humor, strong work ethic, a genuine love of people, a mastery of the ability to relate to children, a love of and unwavering faith in the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and his commitment to his family as an amazing husband, father, son, and brother,” according to a statement made by his family after his death.
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