Rescue specialists needed to make the controlled mini-detonations at different points in the narrow cave so they could carry the spelunker out on a stretcher from 650 feet underground to the surface.

ROME (AP) — An Italian spelunker has been rescued after two days ... Guarniero was strapped to a stretcher and pulled from the cave 200 meters (650 feet) below the surface after rescuers drilled ...

MILAN — The operation to transport an injured spelunker out of a cave in northern Italy cleared a difficult passage Tuesday to leave the uncharted part of the Bueno Fonteno cave and enter the ...

In the Indonesian jungle on the island of Sulawesi, archaeologist and spelunker Pak Hamrullah spotted ... Further exploration revealed that the hole led to a cave, now known as Leang Bulu' Sipong ...

By Michael Paulson In 1925, a spelunker named Floyd Collins got trapped in a Kentucky cave and the unsuccessful efforts to rescue him became a media sensation, with print and radio reporters ...

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