Caving Calamity: Scramble to the Surface

Real Survival Stories

NOISER

Society & Culture, Documentary, Sports, Wilderness, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

John Lane is leading a group of friends on an adventure which is not for the faint-hearted. They’re headed hundreds of feet underground - to explore a network of caves. In this claustrophobic maze of tiny gaps and subterranean streams, many things could go wrong. If John gets in trouble, he’ll have to use every skill in his caving arsenal if he’s to breathe fresh air again… A Noiser production, written by Joe Viner. For ad-free listening, bonus material and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Click the Noiser+ banner to get started. Or, if you’re on Spotify or Android, go to noiser.com/subscriptions If you have an amazing survival story of your own that you’d like to put forward for the show, let us know. Drop us an email at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.5	It's August the 19th, 2006. The dead of night in the Klamath Mountains, Northern California. It's the height of summer, but up here, 6,000 feet above sea level, a perpetual
0:37.5	layer of snow blankets the upper slopes. Amid the crags and ice-filled gullies, jagged clefts appear between the rocks, hidden
0:47.6	entrances to an intricate alpine cave system. Inside there are 16 miles worth of tunnels, a labyrinthine network of
0:59.1	interweaving passageways, plummeting boreholes and cavernous chambers.
1:05.4	At the heart of this maze, lying on his back at the bottom of a deep dank shaft,
1:11.8	is 42-year year old John Lane.
1:14.4	He blinks up into the darkness.
1:17.2	He's stunned.
1:18.8	The last few seconds are a blur.
1:21.7	How did he end up here?
1:23.0	I landed on my back.
1:25.0	I don't know if my light went off.
1:27.0	I can hardly even remember that moment.
1:30.0	It's like a moment that disappeared from my life.
1:33.0	John can't move.
1:35.0	Something has impined,
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