‘Never-before-seen’ footage shows attempts to rescue caver who died ‘worst death imaginable’

system to pull him free from the narrow passage. For a brief moment, rescuers believed they might actually succeed.

Then disaster struck again.

The pulley system failed.

Instead of freeing him, the malfunction caused John to slip even deeper into the cave than before, making rescue nearly impossible.

At that point, rescuers were forced to confront the continue reading …