![]() ![]() Shortly afterwards, he suffers another panic attack. A radio is lowered into the cave and John is able to speak with Emily, who reveals she is pregnant. He still continued to date her, amid rising tensions between her and his family. ![]() John continues to tell him about his relationship with Emily, and reveals that when he first proposed to her she declined, and his family did not take to it kindly. Aaron continues to talk to John, occasionally feeding him Gatorade to keep him hydrated. Aaron, Susie and other workers plan to pull John out of the hole by drilling pulleys into the walls and hooking the ropes to his feet. John's condition continues to worsen as the hours go by. That night, Josh drives Emily to the entrance of the cave where he convinces the lead rescuers into letting her stay at the entrance. His conversation is overshadowed with flashbacks from when he first met Emily to them dating. John begins to talk to Aaron about his relationship with Emily. Aaron manages to calm him down, but not before John injures himself. John falls asleep and has a vision of his daughter in a field, but with an older man wearing grey clothing, whom he has seen before in hallucinations, after which he wakes up and suffers a panic attack. He assures John that everything will be all right, and promises him that he'll get out of the cave. He has been involved in past rescues that have ended tragically, and he vows to not leave without rescuing John.Īaron climbs down and finds John, whose condition is starting to deteriorate. Soon another rescuer, Aaron is brought to the scene. Susie then climbs back up to the entrance where she meets with an expert who states that if John is in the tunnel for extended periods of time, his body will begin to shut down. She tells him many rescuers are on the scene and are doing their best to get him out. Hours later, he is woken by Susie, a rescue worker. While alone, John passes out again due to his upside down position. Josh, at John's behest, reluctantly leaves him to go get help. He manages to alert Josh to his location, who then tries to pull John out himself but is unsuccessful. John wakes up upside down in an 18-inch wide hole and realizes he is completely stuck. As he tries to go back and free himself, he falls into an even smaller hole and passes out. As he goes deeper into the cave, he gets stuck in a small passageway. John makes a decision to split up and explore an un-mapped route. After Emily leaves with Josh's car, the two brothers enter the cave. Emily approves because of John's enthusiasm and he and Josh go to explore the cave. They are picked up by John's brother Josh, who tells him that the Nutty Putty Cave has been opened after having been closed before. In 2009, John Jones, a 26-year-old medical student and experienced caver, arrives in Utah for the Thanksgiving weekend with his wife Emily and young daughter Lizzie. It stars Chadwick Hopson, Alexis Johnson, Landon Henneman, Jyllian Petrie, and Jacob Omer. The film was produced by Deep Blue Films, Cocollala Pictures, and Dark Rider Productions and distributed by Excel Entertainment Group. It is based on the 2009 rescue attempt of John Edward Jones in Nutty Putty Cave, west of Utah Lake. ![]() It was only a short time before John was able to escape the most difficult part of the cave.The Last Descent is a 2016 American biographical survival drama film co-written and directed by Isaac Halasima, and is his first feature-length film. They managed to lift for a few meters until a pulley broke. The rescue teams, totaling about 50 people, arrived quickly, but it took several hours to find him in the maze of the cave, as he was almost 400 feet from the entrance.Īfter much study of the situation, with the aid of ropes and pulleys, the rescue team secured John’s legs and began to perform the movement to lift him. His brother arrived a little later, tried to help him at that moment, but it was in vain. ![]() When he realized he could no longer go back, and the only movement he could make was forward, until he got stuck and could no longer make movements in any direction.Īt that moment John, who is 6 feet tall and weighs 190 pounds, was stuck in a hole 10 inches wide and 18 inches high. In addition, John was upside down, which would become a major problem in the rescue. However, it was an unexplored and unmapped region. He thought he had found it, so he went deeper and deeper into the narrow. John was looking for a part called The Birth Canal. ![]()
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