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That relief evaporated when the rigging failed and Jones dropped back into the same trap from which he’d been freed. It worked to get Jones past the “fishhook” of the rock lip, creating some relief on the afternoon of Nov. They succeeded in rigging a rope and pulley system to help lift him past the obstacle.

To further complicate the situation, Jones’ ribcage would catch on a lip of rock when the rescuers attempted to pull him back up and over the crux. The rescuers had little room to move and very little grip with which to pull.Ī rescuer working near John Jones in Nutty Putty Cave on Nov. His head pointed downward at an angle of 70 to 80 degrees. Jones had been descending head-first when he became pinned in place.

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They struggled to free him in part because of the angle and position of his body. The rescuers worked through Tuesday night and into the day on Wednesday attempting to free Jones. It had only reopened under an online reservation system managed by a local caving organization in early 2009. In fact, Nutty Putty had been closed to public access for years after those earlier rescues. The other one was about 11 hours long,” Cannon said. One was, I don’t know, maybe 6 or 7 hours long. “We had two rescues within about a week of each other about four years earlier. Utah County called out its search and rescue team, which had prior experience working to extract stuck spelunkers from Nutty Putty’s depths. We got the notification sometime I believe just before 9:30,” Cannon said. “They told us that John got stuck about 8:45 p.m. Spencer Cannon stands near the former opening of Nutty Putty Cave on March 7, 2019.