ROME — A spelunking misstep last weekend left Ottavia Piana, 32, injured and trapped 585 metres deep in a Lombardy cave. Wednesday morning, eighty-odd hours after her fall, a 159-man rescue team lifted Piana out. 

 Piana sustained trauma to her vertebrae and ribs, Il Fatto Quotidiano reported, and fractured facial bones and one knee. On her release she was airlifted to a Bergamo hospital.

 Lombardy emergency services spent two days freeing Piana from the same cave in July 2023, after a fall in which the caver broke her leg. 

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