A Brooklyn man was rescued from a tight crevice in a New York cave after a six hour operation by forest rangers.

A cave explorer got stuck in a narrow crevice and developed hypothermia. Rescuers brought him miniature Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups to keep his energy up.

"It was like his whole body was stuck in a crevice that was basically designed to be the exact shape of him," a forest ranger ...

A late-night confined space rescue at Merlin’s Cave in Canaan brought a wide network of regional responders together after a ...

The man from Brooklyn was hiking with friends at Merlin's Cave in the town of Canaan, when he became stuck in a crevice, New ...

On the afternoon of May 17, a group of five experienced cavers dropped into a craggy limestone hole in the ground known as ...

I’ve been spelunking (crawling through underground caves) a couple of times over the years, so I was really intrigued by the ...

Lieutenant John Gullen, an emergency response forest ranger for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, detailed how he rescued a hiker who was stuck in Merlin's Cave. (New Y ...

Forest rangers in New York rescued a man last week who had been stuck in a crevice in a cave for six hours, according to the ...

The man was wedged in a crevice at Merlin's Cave and experiencing hypothermia, forcing rescuers to drill through rock inches ...

A permitted trip for experienced cavers turned into a confined space rescue in the town of Canaan on Sunday, May 17. It took ...

Gullen said he and a member of the Albany-Schoharie Cave Rescue Team worked for nearly two hours to free the man and were able to move him 6 to 10 inches. At that point, they retrieved a hammer drill ...