Not quite 127 Hours, but all the same this must have been terrifying…

Woman stuck in boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve a phone.

I was in the Peaks recently doing some weasling and got very briefly stuck (like about two minutes) and I could feel panic start to take over before I regulated. I can’t begin to imagine what it must have been like for her.

Just read that and sent it to my teenage daughter! It wouldn’t help I know but I’d shit myself

It would, the thinner you got the easier it would be to get out

Yeh, scary.  I used to love going in caves, but anything that gets squeezy was always a no for me.

Watch the film about the Nutty Putty Cave incident, getting stuck especially upside down is no joke.

I lost a toy soldier under the sofa when I was six. I knew then I’d never be a cave diver

Watch the film about the Nutty Putty Cave incident, getting stuck especially upside down is no joke.

On the description alone – no chance!

I cant actually watch the cave diving/potholing vids. gives me the heebie jeebies

A new take on being “down under”

It was on the news tonight. The terrifying thing is she never got her phone back.

Incredible.

My son and I were sat on a Tube train the other day and someone dropped their phone as they were getting off, it span on the platform within a few mm of the gap between the train and the edge before she grabbed it. The scenarios in my mind if it had gone down the gap.. People and their bloody phones eh?

Watched a video on the Nutty Putty incident. Utter nightmare fuel and I’m not even claustrophobic.

Watched a video on the Nutty Putty incident. Utter nightmare fuel and I’m not even claustrophobic

I read an article about it, that wasn’t a good idea, getting trapped in a very confined space is pretty much my worst nightmare! There’s a similar situation in a kids book, by Alan Garner, The Wierdstone of Brisingamen, IIRC, and I’m sure there’s been a great many children who’ve needed counselling after the trauma of reading it!

The very definition of a boulder problem.

It’s for this very reason that my phone is in a very good case, with a high-strength custom lanyard attached, also it’s proof against phone snatchers in busy urban environments.

Looking at the photos again, just being able to see the soles of her feet makes me wonder how she even managed to get down into that space in the first place!

Let’s face it, she’s 23. The most terrifying thing would have been the fact she couldn’t post about the predicament on Tiktok.

(Joking aside, glad she’s ok.)

The latest episode of the Real Survival Stories podcast is about the Beaconsfield miners in Tasmania that got trapped underground for however many days it was. Definitely PTSD material.

“too bad about the phone, tho”

Haha, bloody hell!

Don’t read ‘Birdsong’ then, horrible feeling just thinking about it ?

Oh dear god, just watched a video about that Nutty Putty incident.  Stuff of nightmares, that – urgghhh.

Don’t read ‘Birdsong’ then, horrible feeling just thinking about it ?

As in the WW1 miners – very different but a wonderful book.

Oh dear god, just watched a video about that Nutty Putty incident.  Stuff of nightmares, that – urgghhh.

Had to stop reading about it right now, my palms are sweating.

Not dissimilar to Peak Cave & the now named Moss Cavern 🙁

Had to stop reading about it right now, my palms are sweating.

Probably the right choice.  I’m not quite sure why I kept watching.

Probably the right choice.  I’m not quite sure why I kept watching.

I couldn’t watch it – I struggled to read to the end of the Wiki article.

@johndoh yep, great book but tough read about the tunnellers in WW1.