Grand Canyon Caverns visitors rescued with ropes, harnesses
The four who were stranded stayed in a hotel suite located at the bottom of the cavern overnight, while officials tried and failed to repair the elevator, the spokesperson said
Rescuers used ropes and harnesses to hoist five people to safety after an elevator at a national tourist attraction broke down 21 stories underground. A husband and wife, a couple with two young children and at least two people in their 70s had taken a 30-minute tour of the Grand Canyon Caverns on Sunday and were preparing to return aboveground when they discovered that the lift was not working, Coconino County Sheriff’s officials said in a news release. A man in the group was able to get out and notify authorities after climbing the emergency staircase to the surface, ..the sheriff's search and rescue unit and the Flagstaff Fire Department's technical rescue team set up a rope rescue system in the elevator shaft. Using the emergency stairs, they walked to the bottom, secured each of the tourists in a harness and raised them one at a time up the shaft....Visit ors can tour an ancient cave and stay in an underground hotel
Here are some photos I took of the one I visited...
No, that's not the number of floors, it's the number of feet going down underground:
There's a ladder option in some parts:
That cavern's underground restaurant:
Water can travel pretty far down and that's one of the main contributing factor to the erosion:
Cool stuff to see:
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