Uttarakhand, in the past one year, has seen two major natural and mann-made environmental crisis. The first was in November 2024 when 41 workers were trapped for over 400 hours under 60 metres of ...

Chile's President Sebastian Pinera embraces miner Florencio Antonio Avalos Silva after he was rescued from the collapsed San Jose gold and copper mine where he was trapped with 32 other miners for ...

A mountain collapsed, sealing off 33 miners nearly half a mile underground. With no escape route and no guarantees, their survival became a global race against time.

August 5, 2010: A normal shift turned into a living nightmare. Deep in the Atacama Desert, 33 miners were sealed beneath 2,300 feet of solid rock after the mountain above them collapsed. What ...

In 2010, a gripping tale from beneath the surface of the Earth in northern Chile, where 33 miners were trapped 2,300 feet underground in the San José copper-gold mine.

Above ground, teams of people had been working to find the trapped miners, unaware if they had survived, but on Aug. 22, contact was made with the 33 men after a drill broke through.

Two Chilean doctors helped Chilean miners survive the ordeal of being trapped in a mine for 69 days. In light of the Thai cave case, they share the insight they learned from the rescue of the miners.

On Oct. 13, 2010, after more than two months entombed half a mile under the Chilean desert, the first of 33 trapped miners were pulled to safety.

GETTY The the 33 miners trapped in the San Jose mine in Copiapo, 800 km north of Santiago, Chile ...

THE 69-day ordeal of 33 Chilean miners’ fraught pain and hardship was beamed around the world in 2010 as they remained trapped deep below the ground, but what happened to them after they were ...

No one could expect director Patricia Riggen to flesh out the personalities of all 33 of the trapped Chilean miners in her depiction of the 2010 event, which culminated in an improbable rescue.