Injured Italian cave explorer carried to safety after 75-hour rescue operation
Ottavia Piana, a caver blocked in a deep inside the Bueno Fonteno cave, is carried to safety by rescue workers after falling some five meters during an expedition. Picture: Soccorso Alpino/AP
An injured cave explorer in northern Italy has been carried to safety 75 hours after she fell while attempting to map an unexplored branch of the Bueno Fonteno cave, alpine rescuers said.
The last leg of the rescue operation proceeded more smoothly than expected, and workers carrying 32-year-old Ottavia Piana strapped into a stretcher reached the cave’s mouth in the early hours of Wednesday.
