A 16-year-old teenager was rescued from a 50-foot-deep vertical mineshaft in Placer County, California, on0. The teenage boy and a group of friends had rappelled down the vertical shaft to explore, but on the way back up the rope broke and the teen fell down to the bottom.

A teenager trapped in a 50ft deep mineshaft was rescued in California. The boy, 16, was retrieved from a vertical mine shaft after falling 30 ft when his rope snapped during an exploration with his friends in Placer County on February 10.