RESCUERS freed a caver trapped underground in Ingleborough using a hammer and chisel.

The 44-year-old man became stuck in Newby Moss Pot in the Yorkshire Dales after getting ‘physically stuck’ on the final climb out to daylight.

His companion struggled for 90 minutes to get him out before coming down off the hill to raise the alarm.

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The Clapham-based Cave Rescue Organisation were called at 6.35pm on Friday and used plugs and feathers, and hammer and chisel, to enlarge the constriction and free the trapped man.

A team spokesperson said the man was ‘none the worse for his experience’ when he was freed.