pike chapmaned

Pike Chapmaned is a term spelunkers / cave explorers use to describe one of two things. One someone gets caught in a small cave in, or two someone needs to be pulled out with rope. The reason we call it that is because of a worker in a place called Mammoth Cave in the 1890s. Pike Chapman. he was blocked off and pinned from a cave in, so they decided to pull him out via rope. He would end up dying later that day because they did such a poor job of pulling him out. they just YANKED 'em.