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She Walked Out of a Cave After Four Days Alone
She Walked Out of a Cave After Four Days Alone
Fear of being trapped and the thin thrill of survival: a 52-year-old cave diver walked out after four days underground with a laminated map that would later rewrite scientists’ understanding of Seco Falls’ groundwater - but how did two identical notes end up leading to two different exits? What really happened between the collapse and her emergence?
In this episode, we tell the sequence of events from the moment Cheryl Burke entered Sutter Cave to the morning a delivery driver found her walking the road outside Seco Falls, and we ask how…
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