His conversation is overshadowed with flashbacks from when he first met Emily to them dating. John begins to talk to Aaron about his relationship with Emily. Aaron manages to calm him down, but not before John injures himself. John falls asleep and has a vision of his daughter in a field, but with an older man wearing grey clothing, whom he has seen before in hallucinations, after which he wakes up and suffers a panic attack. He assures John that everything will be all right, and promises him that he'll get out of the cave. He has been involved in past rescues that have ended tragically, and he vows to not leave without rescuing John.Īaron climbs down and finds John, whose condition is starting to deteriorate. Soon another rescuer, Aaron is brought to the scene. Susie then climbs back up to the entrance where she meets with an expert who states that if John is in the tunnel for extended periods of time, his body will begin to shut down. She tells him many rescuers are on the scene and are doing their best to get him out. Hours later, he is woken by Susie, a rescue worker. While alone, John passes out again due to his upside down position. Josh, at John's behest, reluctantly leaves him to go get help. He manages to alert Josh to his location, who then tries to pull John out himself but is unsuccessful. John wakes up upside down in an 18-inch wide hole and realizes he is completely stuck. As he tries to go back and free himself, he falls into an even smaller hole and passes out. ![]() As he goes deeper into the cave, he gets stuck in a small passageway. ![]() John makes a decision to split up and explore an un-mapped route. After Emily leaves with Josh's car, the two brothers enter the cave. Emily approves because of John's enthusiasm and he and Josh go to explore the cave. They are picked up by John's brother Josh, who tells him that the Nutty Putty Cave has been opened after having been closed before. In 2009, John Jones, a 26-year-old medical student and experienced caver, arrives in Utah for the Thanksgiving weekend with his wife Emily and young daughter Lizzie. It stars Chadwick Hopson, Alexis Johnson, Landon Henneman, Jyllian Petrie, and Jacob Omer. The film was produced by Deep Blue Films, Cocollala Pictures, and Dark Rider Productions and distributed by Excel Entertainment Group. It is based on the 2009 rescue attempt of John Edward Jones in Nutty Putty Cave, west of Utah Lake. The rescue took its toll on crews working at the cave, many of whom were grieving and struggling with their inability to free Jones.The Last Descent is a 2016 American biographical survival drama film co-written and directed by Isaac Halasima, and is his first feature-length film. where the cave peters out to virtually nothing," said Valentine, who said he'd been in Nutty Putty some 25 times over the years. "This particular area is very, very difficult. Jones found himself in one of the areas off the cave's main passage during an outing with 11 friends and family Tuesday night and was unable to get out. It reopened in May and had once again become popular, especially among amateur cavers, said Mike Leavitt, who managed access to the cave.Īlthough the cave was popular, it had never been fully mapped. The cave hosted 5,000 to 10,000 visitors per year until 2006, when it was temporarily closed while managers implemented a stricter system of access that included a permit system, requirement that cavers be with someone experienced and a locked gate. ![]() The last time was in 2004 when a teenage boy had to be pulled out of an area not far from where Jones got stuck. Although Jones' death is the first known fatality since cavers began exploring Nutty Putty's narrow passageways in the 1960s, rescuers have been called to the cave five times in the last 10 years.
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