Spelunking.

     An incident over the holidays in Spanish Fork, Utah reminds me of one of those horrible accidents you drive past and you can't not look.
     A young medical student, a father one one about to become a father of two, a skilled cave explorer. And tragedy. Worst yet, the story only got sadder as the holiday weekend progressed.

• He became stuck in a tight 10" x 18" passage in a cave.
• A rescue team worked for a day to free him.
• At one point they succeeded, but he fell back to the trap.
• There was nothing else they could do.
• He died

     And somehow even all of that wasn't enough of a tregedy. The latest development came this morning. The New York Times has the story.

[Note: the photo shows my High School classmate Tom Padovano. Our class went cave exploring in upstate New York, near Ellenville, numerous times. I remember squeezing through some very narrow passageways. Sucking in our already pretty skinny guts was part of the process.]