There is something wired into certain people that ordinary life simply cannot satisfy. The same impulse that sends people jumping out of planes, summiting Everest in whiteout conditions, or free-climbing sheer rock faces with no rope. The pull toward the edge of what is possible and the places most people would never go.
Cave exploration sits firmly in that category. Dark, tight, unmapped, and completely unforgiving of mistakes. For most people, it is incomprehensible. For others, it is irresistible. On November 25th, 2009, a 26-year-old named John Edward Jones crawled into Nutty Putty Cave in Utah. He took a wrong turn. He never came back out.
