Injured man in hospital after eight-hour rescue from remote cave in Tasmania

Rescue team of 40 retrieve 62-year-old in ‘highly technical’ operation after he sustained a back injury in caving fall

An injured man has been stretchered out of a remote cave on Tasmania’s west coast after he fell several metres, triggering a complex eight-hour rescue effort.

Police said the 62-year-old man, from the north-western coastal town of Ulverstone, was caving with friends near Mount Cripps on Saturday when he fell several metres off a ladder inside the narrow cave system, sustaining a back injury that left him unable to climb out.

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