MILAN (AP) — Rescuers on Monday freed a cave explorer who was injured by falling rocks some 40 meters (more than 130 feet) below the surface in Italy's northwestern Piedmont region while on an outing ...

When I reached him, Roger Brucker was at a National Speleological Society convention in Upstate New York where he was busy signing books. Members of the society are cavers — folks who explore caves.

In 1925, a rescue mission took a chilling turn into a drawn-out tragedy. A man remained alert and responsive, trapped in a slow, agonising death within the confines of a cave. On 30 January, famed ...

Italian rescuers have successfully freed a 63-year-old cave explorer who was injured by falling rocks some 40 metres (more than 130 feet) below the surface. The man, who sustained a head injury during ...