On Thursday, an ice cave fell on two teenage boys and trapped them underneath for hours until rescue crews arrived at the scene with chain saws to cut through the big compact snow and ice to release the boys. Alec Corbett, 17, and

Allesandro Gelmini, 14, were both from Seattle and they were suffering from hypothermia. The first rescued was Gelmini as the rescuers need other half an hour to release Corbett too. The two teenagers were trapped under the ice for nearly five hours but they got out alive. After the two were freed, a Navy helicopter took the boys to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where doctors said they were in a critical condition.

King County sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John Urquhart said that "It was very difficult to get them out, and to get them out alive."
Gelmini and Corbett were hiking with their mothers and sisters when the ice cave collapsed, trapping them underneath. They were hiking near the Cascade Mountains pass at about 50 miles east of Seattle. The area was just like a canyon filled with snow and is thought to be very dangerous.

A cascade of melted snow fell on the two boys who seemed to have been at the wrong spot and at the wrong time.

The mother of one of them stated that the boys went to take a picture in an ice cave about five yards inside its mouth but the ice came down on them, trapping the two inside. All of the witnesses are surprised that the two boys survived.