- Date
-
1st Dec 1985
approximate
- Publication
-
ACA 1984-1985
p. 406
- Cave
- Lon Odell Memorial Cave
- State
- Missouri
- County
- Unknown
- Country
- United States of America
- Category
- Cave
- Incident type
- Difficulty on ladder
- Group type
- Unknown
- Group size
- Unknown
- Aid type
- Unknown
- Source
- Unknown
- Incident flags
-
Injured cavers
No injured cavers recorded.
Incident report
A caver, exhausted from other struggles in the cave was unable to climb the fifty foot entrance pit cable ladder. She was pulled up with the belay rope tied around her waist. There were numerous delays due to the pain of the rope or when she became caught in the narrow cleft of the upper 25 feet of the drop.
Summary
A caver was too exhausted to climb the cable ladder, causing delays during her extraction from the cave.
References
- Jon Beard, Trip Report, Ozarks Underground Winter, 1985
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