The rag-tag team of ‘rat-hole’ miners who played perhaps one of the most important roles in the rescue of the workers in Uttarakhand, doing in hours what no machine could in several days, make for unlikely heroes. But now many – especially men, who were inside the tunnel for 17 days, and their families – will remember their names for a long time. The rag-tag team of ‘rat-hole’ miners who played perhaps one of the most important roles in the rescue of the workers in Uttarakhand, doing in hours what no machine could in several days, make for unlikely heroes.