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He Drew a Map in Darkness - Survived Half a Mile Underground
He Drew a Map in Darkness - Survived Half a Mile Underground
A mineral smell led a volunteer to a crawlspace where a 22-year-old man was half-submerged and clutching a nearly dissolved folded sheet of graph paper; conservators later revealed it was a precise hand-drawn map made eight days earlier in complete darkness half a mile underground. How did Kenneth York navigate an unmapped cave passage, draw a map by memory under those conditions, and end up beneath the house on Bowman Hollow Road?
In this episode, we tell what happened on April 11 and April 19, 2009: the dive, the disappearance…
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