The 47-year-old man, of Belgian nationality, fell three meters high on Friday afternoon. Several dozen firefighters were mobilized to raise it. He suffers from a broken collarbone.
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A Belgian speleologist who had fallen on Friday November 4 in a cave in Olargues in the Hauts-Cantons (Hérault), 400 meters underground was brought to the surface this Saturday shortly after 7 p.m., says France Bleu Hérault. Fallen from more than three meters high, it suffers from a broken collarbone and several broken ribs.
#Intervention|| 6/6 Relief in Olargues where the injured speleologist has just found the open air thanks to the mobilization of a formidable chain of #Rescue mobilized since Friday afternoon The first images #InfoFlash pic.twitter.com/VzU1CoaXhh
— Firefighters 34 (@SDIS34) November 5, 2022
The sixty firefighters mobilized, who feared that the operation would take several days, finally managed to bring up the 47-year-old man in five hours. The galleries had to be widened in at least three places, in particular using loads of dynamite and small jackhammers to allow the stretcher to pass. The most delicate point was the passage of a lake requiring the intervention of specialized divers.
It was while navigating in cave PN77 that the fifty-something had suffered a heavy fall on Friday afternoon in a site renowned in the world of caving. He had been installed in a tent and dry this Saturday morning and doctors were in constant contact with him.