He was between a rock and a hard place.
A Brooklyn man exploring an upstate New York cave with his pals ended up so firmly jammed in a crevice that it took six hours in the dark and cold to get him freed — thanks to heroic state park rangers.
Rangers got word of the harrowing situation inside Merlin’s Cave in the town of Canaan around 6:30 p.m. on May 17, state Department of Environmental Conservation officials said on Facebook last Friday.
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