The rescue reminded me of the Thailand rescue in the summer of 2918.
Mark Dickey is a very experienced caver. He got very sick at 3400 ft and couldn’t rescue himself. Experts from various organizations came together to carry him out.
His girlfriend had to climb out for medical supplies and then return.
It’s quite amazing how experienced people traveled from 8 countries to help with the rescue.
I remember the same efforts for the teens trapped in the flooded Thailand cave.
I recently watched a NatGeo program about the Thai cave rescue. I hadn’t known that while they were looking for the boys, they found four men, IIRC miners, trapped in an alcove, and used that as a template for the methods they used to get the boys out.
Wow, great Tyrolean set ups. That puts tremendous tension on the rope. I was on a ground search and rescued team, and on a practice, we ended up dragging a guy through a river. Rope was not tight enough, and depending on the rope, it will stretch.
I can’t imagine how much rope they had to hump down into that cave. And kudos to his fiancée getting out to get help, on her own (not saying she’s not a great caver, just looks like you would need help)
Time traveling a lot? 
This reminds me of a question which has been discussed on the Everest thread: if the guy wasn’t an American (or citizen of a similar wealthy country) how much effort would have been made to rescue him? While the Thailand cave rescue has been mentioned I think that was very much “the exception which proves the rule”.
I do not believe there is a real “rule” that says that not every effort will be made to rescue someone from a mineshaft/cave/mountain/shipwreck unless they have an American passport. Do you have evidence of this ever happening? Not to say that there have never been fuck-ups like the response to the Kursk disaster.
In the Everest thread a few dozen mountain climbers walked past a dying porter. A lot of people feel that if instead it was one of the well off climbers (American, European…) a major effort would have been made to rescue him.