By Lizzie Edmonds and Lucy Crossley Germany's mountain rescuers says doctors are close to reaching an injured cave explorer - who has been stuck deep inside an Alpine cave on the Austrian border since Sunday. Researcher Johann Westhauser, 52, was injured in a rock fall 3,280 feet underground inside the Riesending cave system near Berchtesgaden. Rescue official Robert Nagel today said two doctors are on their way to the site of the accident - some 6,000 meters from the entrance. A rescuer explores the Riesending cave where an explorer is currently lying injured 3,200ft below Specialist rescue workers from Switzerland and Italy have arrived to help with the arduous rescue effort, which could take up to several more days and even weeks
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Johann Westhauser, 52, was injured when hit by rocks on Sunday morning
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He is thought to be 3,280 ft underground in Reinsending cave system
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Two doctors could be with the man within hours, rescuers said today
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Will then decide how to get explorer out - a mission which may take days
Others have set up camps inside the cave system, which lies on the border with @placeholder.