Skunk Cave, north of Cresco, Iowa, Saturday 6 October 2001: an hour into a trip with his father and two friends, Andy Wernimont is wedged in a tight crevice. Rescue units from two states work on the rock with a hammer drill and a hydraulic pump. Twelve hours later, Minnesota cave explorer John Ackerman brings him out. Told from the press account of the rescue.

The case: Skunk Cave, north of Cresco, Iowa, 6 October 2001.

On Saturday 6 October 2001, Andy Wernimont of Byron, Minnesota, entered Skunk Cave, north of Cresco, Iowa, at 10 a.m. with his father and two friends. About an hour later he was wedged in a tight crevice. At 11:15 p.m., twelve hours after he became stuck, cave explorer John Ackerman escorted him to the surface.

Chapters

0:00 Nothing is working

0:38 Ten in the morning

1:07 Two states

1:44 Forty-eight degrees

2:23 The message

3:01 11:15 p.m.

3:17 What the record says

4:03 The same spot

Sources

Press article on the rescue (reproduced on the Minnesota Cave Preserve website)

Star Tribune (2018): "Cave explorer discusses dangers of hobby"

Post Bulletin (Rochester, Minnesota), news report

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