Join thousands already receiving our daily newsletter. “I wouldn’t be surprised if he goes back.”Ĭaleb Warnock can be reached at 344-2543 or story appeared in The Daily Herald on page C1. “They never gave up, they were diligent and absolutely fabulous - to think they were so concerned about a teenage boy they don’t even know.”Ĭlark said she her son will probably explore the cave again, after he is recovered from his injuries. “Both Lynn and I are so grateful for all the search and rescue volunteers,” she said. She said the family has been overwhelmed by the kindness of rescue workers. “The whole left side of his body was not working,” she said. It took another hour and a half to drag him to the entrance of the narrow cave using the harness, she said. “He didn’t have a shirt on, only shorts, and they had to keep pulling him up. ![]() “That was painful for him,” Holly Clark said. Emergency crews used it to pull him from the hole. Rescuers then managed to get a harness to Brock, who tied it around his waste. “They were only able to move it by millimeters at a time,” she said. The group entered the cave on Tuesday, November. Just six months after Nutty Putty’s reopening, John Edward Jones alongside ten others comprising family and friends visited the cave. An engraving of John Edward Jones at the sealed entrance of the Nutty Putty Cave Image Source. Rescuers spent nearly nine hours simply straightening his leg. Why the Nutty Putty Cave Is Sealed Up With One Spelunker Inside. “They had not been able to make any headway at all.”īrock had lost all feeling in his left leg and was in a lot of pain, she said. “They were very, very concerned when we got there,” she said. “We immediately got in the car and drove out there.”Īrriving at the cave at 11:30 p.m., she and her husband were told her son’s condition was grave. “We left afterward and went out to dinner.”Īfter arriving home at 10 p.m., a sheriff’s deputy called to say her son was stuck in the cave. “We thought he was in the crowd there,” she said. Brock had planned to leave the cave in time to attend the game. ![]() Holly Clark said at the time the rescue began, she and her husband, Lynn, had been at the opening varsity football game at Timpanogos High School, where Brock is a student. His friends left that cave and called for help. Once wedged in half, and still upside down, Brock couldn’t move, she said.
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