Roger Brucker in Crystal Cave. Western Kentucky became the site of a media sensation in 1925 when a man named Floyd Collins ended up trapped 200 feet underground. A revised third edition of a book ...

Heartville resident Richard Raber has been exploring caves since 1960. He wanted to end his cave exploration career on his 85th birthday in the same cave he started it in: Rollins Number 2 near Fort ...

When Floyd Collins ventured into Sand Cave in Mammoth Cave, Kentucky on Jan. 30, 1925, he was searching for a destination that would draw in people in from all over world. Remarkably, the cave ...

MILAN — An injured cave explorer in northern Italy was carried to safety Wednesday, 75 hours after she fell while attempting to map an unexplored branch of the Bueno Fonteno cave, alpine rescuers said ...

MILAN — 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 with ...

Rescuers pulled American explorer Mark Dickey from a cave in the Taurus Mountains of Turkey, more than a week after he fell ill while at a depth of more than 3,280 feet inside the cave. The Turkish ...

It has been 100 years since a cave explorer became trapped in a Kentucky cave for 17 days and died there after efforts to rescue him were unsuccessful. The harrowing ordeal of Floyd Collins, 37, made ...