Escape By Cave Explorers
<N.Z Pres* Association—Copyright! (Bee. 8 pm.) » ST. GAUDENS (French Pyrenees), August 16. Three Frenchmen trapped by a sudden flood 1600 ft under the Pyrenees climbed to safety today their companions reported at St. Gaudens tonight They had been missing since dusk last night when a telephone message from their companions on a potholing expedition said that the underground rivers had risen suddenly and had cut off the three men.
One man went on a risky mission to find them, but had to turn back, and when he returned he found the main party had been forced to climb away from the floods.
The men have been probing “Pothole Pierre” for a fortnight in one of Europe’s most extraordinary underground networks of caverns and rivers in the La Coume-Ournede area. Rocky galleries run for miles and the explorers have been sailing in rubber dinghies on the many underground rivers and lakes.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28359, 19 August 1957, Page 9
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