By Will Ripley, Rebecca Wright, Kocha Olarn, Isaac Yee and Kara Fox, CNN
Two men being hugged after they were rescued from a semi-submerged cave in Laos' central Xaysomboun province, northeast of the capital Vientiane.
After a long and complex operation inside a flooded cave in a remote area of central Laos, the men at the centre of the mission did something few expected: they walked out.
It wasn't what the international rescue operation had planned for.
When the first of the trapped group of five men dived through the flooded tunnels on Friday local time, the efforts were paused and there was expectation it could be hours, even days before the others emerged.
