The Scariest Moment of My Life

"I felt like I was on a frozen lake and all the ice around me was slowly cracking, and it's just a matter of time before I fall and everything goes black. The stope was covered in centuries of mud and debris as is normal in mines, but solid mud or earth doesn't just buckle, right? What does buckle like that is wood, old rotten wood," he says. "When I suddenly felt solid rock underneath me again, it was like all the birthdays I've ever had combined."