The Miners Trapped Underground For Two Weeks
And how the Foo Fighters inspired them
6 min readAug 31, 2020
On April 25, 2006, a gold mine in the town of Beaconsfield in Australia collapsed with seventeen people inside. Fourteen miners managed to flee to safety, but three men, Brant Webb aged 37, Larry Knight aged 44 and Todd Russell aged 34 were missing. A 2.2 magnitude earthquake had struck while the three miners were attaching…
