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He learned how to cave in Utah and Nevada. 20 years later in Thailand, the stakes were much higher.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Josh Morris, 42, started climbing in the Cottonwood canyons at a young age and then began caving in college. Fluent in Thai, Morris has run a rock climbing business in Thailand for the past 15 years, and because of his expertise in caving and his mastery of the language, he ended up playing a central role as an international coordinator during the recent rescue of the trapped soccer team in Thailand.