Cave Diver memes mock the extreme, adrenaline-seeking spelunkers who willingly squeeze into impossibly tight spaces for the sake of adventure. While cave diving is already a high-risk hobby, the ...

John Jones, 26, of Stansbury Park, in Utah died on Thursday nearly 28 hours after he got stuck upside-down in Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking site south of Salt Lake City. Expecting their ...

SALT LAKE CITY — It was a news story in 2009 that's been hard to forget — the tragic rescue attempt at the Nutty Putty Cave in Utah ... asked if he's worried the tragedy will keep people ...

Some spelunkers opposed the closing of the Nutty Putty and a petition was started to save the cave but failed. In 2016, the tragedy was dramatised for the big screen in a film titled The Last Descent.

John Edward Jones was just 26 years old when he headed on a trip to Utah’s Nutty Putty cave in 2009 alongside ... At one point tragedy struck when a pulley failed during the extrication process ...

“I understand how that can go viral.” The Nutty Putty tragedy didn’t just go viral, though. It has stayed that way for a decade and a half. Visitors to Kowallis’ blog are but a fraction of ...

Unfortunately, it was only a matter of months after this that tragedy struck. On November 24, 2009, John Edward Jones, a medical student, visited Nutty Putty Cave with his brother Josh and friends.

The Nutty Putty Cave in Utah was one a popular caving destination for amateurs and professionals alike, with its size and complicated system of twisty tunnels proving tempting to adventurers.