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Last Updated: 7:15 am | Monday, November 27, 2006
A Cincinnati man is dead after a falling down a narrow and jagged cave chute near Burnside, Ky.
Witnesses told the Pulaski County coroner that the group of seven arrived at the Garbage Pit, an area within the Sloan Valley Cave system around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday.
When leaving, M. and three others opted to leave the cave through what cavers call the Screaming Willie, a narrow hole that a caver must climb close to 60 feet straight up to get out.
Three people ahead of M. made it out safely.
At about the midway point, he either slipped or missed the edge that he was reaching for and fell about 30 feet.
Coroner Richard New said it is not clear if the fall killed M. because of the lack of physical trauma at the scene. “We just don’t know,” he said.
body was taken to the Frankfort Medical Examiner’s Office where an autopsy is being performed. Results should be available Tuesday.
New said ,he was not wearing a helmet and was free climbing – without a harness.
“If he was wearing a helmet or a harness it could have made the difference, if it (his death) was in fact due to the accident,” New said
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