An experienced spelunker, Jones — a father of one with another child on the way — chose to explore a section of the Nutty Putty Cave known as the “birth canal,” a narrow passageway that eventually ...

Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave remains a testament to one of the most tragic incidents that resulted in a caver’s worst, unimaginable death. 26-year-old John Edward Jones was a medical student and an ...

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT John Edward Jones, 26, was an experienced caver who died trapped inside Nutty Putty Cave in Utah ...

John Edward Jones, 26, was a medical student and experienced spelunker who went cave diving with a group of friends and ventured into a narrow passageway while searching for the "Birth Canal" ...

It was supposed to be a fun family outing. Instead, John Jones got stuck 15 years ago this week in Utah’s Nutty Putty Cave, upsidedown, with no way out. For 27 hours, rescuers worked to get John free.

The decision to close Nutty Putty Cave after John Jones died inside it almost 16 years ago still stirs up controversy. For most of the nearly 60 years prior to Jones’ death, the cave had been a ...

John Edward Jones, 26, became trapped in Utah's Nutty Putty Cave in 2009 after crawling head-first into a narrow passage with no escape, leading to a desperate rescue attempt ...

15 years after a man died in the Nutty Putty Cave, his family and rescuers still struggle to escape the darkness A wreath is placed at the Nutty Putty cave. When Emily Sanchez first visited her ...

John Edward Jones got wedged into a narrow passageway inside a Utah cave in 2009, and he never came out A rope-pulley system was used to attempt a rescue, but an "equipment failure" put things back at ...