Upside down caver suffers 'worst death imaginable' before he's sealed inside forever

dailystar.co.uk:

died after becoming wedged upside down between rocks for over 24 hours. Medical student and experienced spelunker John Edward Jones ventured into the Nutty Putty Cave in Utah with pals over Thanksgiving on November 24 2009, but never made it out.

The entrance to the natural attraction was soon declared a hazard and filled with concrete, sealing John inside forever.The 26-year-old dad's fatal mistake was believing he could squeeze into the same spaces he used to be able to as a kid.

Inching his way into the so-called Birth Canal head first, the doctor in training wiggled forward with his hips, stomachs and fingers until he realised he was stuck.His only option was to keep moving forward, and exhaled the air from his chest so he could fit through the "L-shaped pinpoint" which was just 10 inches across and 18 inches high.But when John breathed in again, his chest expanded and he was wedged inside for good.John's brother Josh was the first to find him, and tried pulling at his calves but was unsuccessful.Terrifyingly John then slid even further down into the passage and was trapped with his arms pinned under his chest.Josh had no choice but to leave his brother and work his way out of the cave, where he called for help.Rescuers from the Utah County Sheriff's Office arrived and began a complicated extraction attempt, made worse by the fact that John was in "absolutely the worst spot in the cave"."It's very narrow, very awkward, and it's difficult to get rescuers down there," rescuer Shawn Roundy told media at the time."It's a really tight spot, but we've been able to get around him.