![]() George native was attending medical school at the University of Virginia, hoping to pursue a career as pediatric cardiologist. “He head explored many caves and maneuvered is way through many tight spaces before,” the family said in a statement issued late Thursday.įor the past two years, the St. Nutty Putty is now closed until a decision can be made about its future, Leavitt said.Īs described by his family, Jones was an outdoor lover with a strong sense of adventure. I’m sure he went into this passage hoping it was going to open up into one of the larger rooms.” “They were qualified, John was qualified. ![]() “They’ve never been to Nutty Putty before, but they toured many harder caves in the Logan area that required vertical climbing skills,” said Leavitt, one of dozens of cavers who volunteered with the rescue effort. The Jones group of 11 explorers, including some of his four brothers, met all three of those criteria, Leavitt said. ![]() Tuesday in an L-shaped area of the cave known as “Bob’s Push.” The area is only about 18 inches wide and 10 inches high.Įxploring Nutty Putty, which is privately owned by Utah’s State Institutional Trust Land Administration, requires reservations, an access pass and, for safety reasons, either caving experience or an experienced guide. The 6-foot-tall, 190-pound Jones got stuck with his head at an angle below his feet about 9 p.m. On Thursday, rescuers suspended efforts to recover his body as they considered the options to do so, Utah County sheriff’s office Sgt. On Wednesday, rescue teams used drilling equipment, rope and a pulley system to try to free Jones, to no avail. It was the first known fatality since cavers began exploring the 1,500-foot cave’s narrow passageways in the 1960s, cave access manager Michael Leavitt said. John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, died nearly 28 hours after he got stuck upside-down in Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking site south of Salt Lake City. I wonder what he thought he’d see on the other side.A medical student who died Thursday after a daylong effort to rescue him 150 feet underground was an outdoors lover and experienced caver who was expecting the birth of his second child next year, officials and family members said. The passage he crawled through wasn’t worn away at all since few had attempted it. Every cave I’ve been in has been unfortunately marked by graffiti or ropes but it does help you find your way. It’s a reminder that something so simple could be so fatal. Was he getting cocky and exploring? Trying to map uncharted territory? Or did he honestly think he was in the Birth Canal? ![]() Or maybe he was in a passage that nobody had ever crawled through. People say he thought he was in the Birth Canal but was actually in Ed’s Push. We knew where we were and had done it several times. The rock was worn away by people crawling over it over decades. Everything we did was well charted territory. Coming out the other side of a long crawl feels good. I grew up caving with my dad and my brother and did many tight squeezes where you had to take the backpack off. I, like many other Redditors have become obsessed with the details of this unfortunate story. Hey y’all - first of all Rest In Peace John Jones ![]()
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