Cave crawling is akin to mountaineering, in which it shares a lot of techniques. Except with a cave you don’t exactly know what is after the odd opening. Ive known some of these people and they are unique. I saw reports that this cave had long vertices, so they had some effort getting him out of there on a stretcher.
An American tourist is arrested for smashing ancient Roman statues at a museum in Israel (apnews.com)
WGA and the studios reach tentative deal to end writers’ strike (www.latimes.com)
Mark Dickey: US explorer freed from one of Turkey's deepest caves (www.bbc.co.uk)
Supreme Court blocks $6 billion opioid settlement that would have given the Sackler family immunity | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
Ok, still a ways to go before celebration, but we’re trending in the right direction. So, I’m choosing optimism.