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. Read the full story by logging in or becoming a member of StrangeOutdoors.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. Within days, Nutty Putty Cave was sealed with concrete forever as a memorial to John Jones. They tried desperately to get him out of the position he was wedged in. John eventually died on the evening of November 25, 2009, stuck upside down, in the narrow passage from heart failure after a huge rescue effort by over 100 volunteers. It was to be a fatal crawl in the deepest part of the cave and one that led to one of the most shocking and disturbing deaths imaginable. When they got into Nutty Putty, John made the unfortunate decision to split up and explore an un-mapped route within the cave system. The cave is west of Utah Lake and about 55 miles from Salt Lake City. So John and Josh and several friends headed to Nutty Putty Cave at around 8 pm on Tuesday, November 24, 2009. He suggested that they head out there for a bit of spelunking to relive their childhood experiences. They were picked up by Josh, who told John that the Nutty Putty Cave had been re-opened for six months, after a long closure due to safety and erosion concerns. John, 26, his wife Emily, and daughter Lizzie arrived in Utah to see family over the Thanksgiving weekend in 2009 at their parents’ Stansbury Park home. The recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems is known as spelunking in the United States and Canada and potholing or just caving elsewhere in the world. When John Edward Jones was a kid, he often explored cave systems with his father, Leon, and his brother, Josh, in Utah.
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