Narrow Escape

Tue., July 21, 1998

A cave explorer trapped for more than a day in a 16-inch-wide tunnel deep inside a cave emerged Monday after 200 rescuers worked around the clock to free him. Craig Douglas, 24, of Medford, Mass., had only minor scrapes and an injury to his right leg when brought to the surface about 9:30 a.m. Douglas was exploring Keyhole cave about 25 miles west of Albany, N.Y., on Saturday when he got stuck squeezing through a small tunnel opening. Rescuers freed him from the narrow crevice Sunday night, then slept several hours in a chamber about the size of a small car before rescuers began the work of bringing him up 100 feet to the mouth of the little-used cave.

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