Thirty-Three Men and a Hole Through the Rock

On August 5, 2010, seven hundred thousand tons of rock collapsed inside Chile's San Jose copper mine, sealing thirty-three miners 2,300 feet underground. They had enough food for two days. The air was suffocating, the heat unbearable, and no one on the surface knew whether they were alive. For seventeen days, they waited. They rationed tiny spoonfuls of canned tuna.…