A rescue team brought the Canadian out of Harwoods Hole, Takaka Hill, shortly before 8.30pm yesterday. ``I looked up Harwoods Hole [and] on the news there were reports of a trapped female caver. "We have a debt to those rescue workers and to your people as a whole we can never repay. ``We just felt completely helpless and at the mercy of those amazing rescue workers. She had fallen while descending into Harwoods Hole, a 176m deep shaft.

Source: Otago Daily Times March 01, 2017 05:42 UTC