{"id":14598,"date":"2014-06-12T00:58:58","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=14598"},"modified":"2014-06-12T00:58:58","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T16:58:58","slug":"doctors-to-reach-injured-german-cave-explorer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/12\/doctors-to-reach-injured-german-cave-explorer\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctors to reach injured German cave explorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_14599\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14599\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14599\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe.jpg\" alt=\"Mont Blanc, the highest point of the Alps. Wikipedia photo\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Alps-Mont-Blanc-Europe-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mont Blanc, the highest point of the Alps. Wikipedia photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>BERLIN \u2014 Germany&#8217;s mountain rescue service says doctors are close to reaching an injured explorer stuck deep inside an Alpine cave on the Austrian border.<\/p>\n<p>Researcher Johann Westhauser was injured in a rock fall Sunday 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) underground, inside the Riesending cave system near Berchtesgaden.<\/p>\n<p>Rescue official Robert Nagel said Wednesday that two doctors are on their way to the site of the accident, some 6,000 meters from the entrance.<\/p>\n<p>He says they could reach Westhauser within hours and will then assess how the 52-year-old German can be brought to the surface.<\/p>\n<p>Nagel says the tricky terrain within its vertical shafts and narrow passages means it will take about six days to bring Westhauser out.<\/p>\n<p>Westhauser had been spelunking with two colleagues. A team of experts reached him on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN \u2014 Germany&#8217;s mountain rescue service says doctors are close to reaching an injured explorer stuck deep inside an Alpine &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":14599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,17],"tags":[5067,5066,2864,5068,5069,2243,3303,5070],"class_list":["post-14598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-w","tag-alpine","tag-alps","tag-austria","tag-berline","tag-cave-explorer","tag-doctors","tag-germany","tag-medical-team","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}