An overweight woman got stuck in a well-known South African cave for nearly twelve hours on New Year's Day, trapping 23 others in the process.
The woman was stuck inside the "Tunnel of Love" shortly after noon and was freed with the help of liquid paraffin and a pulley said Hein Gerstner, manager of the Cango Caves in the Western Cape.
"She was really quite a large woman," he said. "She was forewarned at the ticket office and by the guide that she might have difficulty on the tour, but she insisted on going along."
"We used liquid paraffin to grease the surface area and used a pulley to lift her," said Gerstner. "She was eventually carried out on a stretcher."
Twenty-three other people trapped in another tunnel behind the woman were given blankets, water, chocolate bars and ablution buckets during the rescue effort.
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