![]() ![]() I can only imagine how compelling your personal statement was if you wrote about your SAR experience! I have been tutoring for the past 12 years and one thing I do is help people get into medical school (and stay in! And pass USMLE 1 & 2!) I get a lot of personal statement jobs and I can only imagine what helping you would have been like.Īnyway, thanks for all you did for him. I figured that if he had gotten freed when the pulley system was attempted (if it hadn’t broken), he’d probably live but need a double amputation and have some serious heart damage. But I can visualize the need for knee hyper extension while being backed out of the hole if hip flexion wouldn’t suffice to bend the body enough to get around the curve. It was in the process of dying, wasn’t it? Is thus part of why his legs would need to be broken (other than the low ceiling in the cave)? He was able to get INTO that hole. It sounds like he was compensating to some extent up until he lost pulses. Because I know that his inverted position drained the blood from his legs, plus his heart was failing. An article said he lost his pedal pulses hours before dying. Were John’s legs dying/dead? It alarmed me that he apparently screamed when his leg hit the ceiling. I was a 3rd year prior to a near-fatal car accident. Instead of sending a team in 5 years later to finally get him out, we chose the safer path to just close it all. Honestly, the only reason the cave was closed is because we had no way to get him unstuck until he decomposed enough to collapse his rib cage. Unfortunately we weren't able to get him out. It was an awful ordeal trying to rescue him, but accidents happen. Does that mean we should close off access to that area which thousands of people visit every year? We had a guy just the other day that was sitting next to a popular waterfall and a log fell from above and hit him in the head and he died instantly. We have people die every year in the county doing things that other people have done safely before. ![]() It is generally implied that by participating in whatever activity, the person assumes and understands the risks involved. The county/state doesn't really close access in high risk recreation areas. It is a ways down in and would be a ton of work to block off. Realistically I feel like the appearance of the passage would keep people away. John said he thought it was a passage to an explored section of cave. Nothing about it made me think that I should go explore it. When I've looked at it prior to the rescue, I thought it was just a dead end or minor drainage branch at most. It is an exceptionally tight little corner of the cave. There are a few reasons that I can think of as to why the county/state didnt close off that section of cave. So I do Search and Rescue with Utah County (where nutty putty cave is) and was on the second of these rescues. ![]() r/alpinism Take hiking to the high slopes Please join the NSS, find your local grotto (cave club) to learn caving and cave locations.įind a caving group in your own country: International Union of Speleology No pictures of cavers without helmets or doing anything else unsafe. ![]() Do not POST cave locations (to avoid vandalism and accidents).Do not SOLICIT cave locations (to avoid vandalism and accidents)."Cave Softly: Take only pictures, leave only footprints (in the right places), kill only time." ![]()
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