tunnel escape
Dig your way out
A tunnel escape is an escape made by digging a tunnel, typically from a prison or confined area to a point beyond its walls or fences.
The term evokes dramatic wartime prison breaks: The tunnel escape took months of secret excavation.
More broadly, any underground route used to flee captivity or danger.
- undergroundBelow ground or countercultural
- passageSegment of text
- digUnearth by shoveling
- burrowAnimal's dug dwelling
- prisonerConfined criminal detainee
POW camp · prison break · darkness · crawl · freedom · air shaft · shaft · dirt · dirt floor · concealed · breakout · fugitive · on the run · hole · hidden · flashlight · narrow · claustrophobic
- Berlin WallBerlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie, East Berlin, West Berlin
- prisoncell block, inmate, jail, prison, prisoner
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
tunnel escapewall climb
Going up vertical surfaces
helicopter escape · walking out · fence climbing · blending in
tunnel escapetunnel collapse
Underground passage failure
recapture · capture · discovery · apprehension · betrayal
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