This is the moment when a team of 12 Delhi-based rat hole miners pulled out the 41 trapped workers successfully. Making the nation elated, relieved and emotional workers who spent 17 days in the heart of darkness, took a sigh of relief when the high-tech heavy machines failed to make any major breakthrough human hands made India's biggest rescue mission a roaring success. It was on Monday, when the 12 rat miners were pressed into the task of digging horizontally after the Augur machine failed. its blades getting entangled in the debris. The last 10-12 metres of debris was proving too much for the sophisticated machines. In an exclusive chat with India Today the miners narrated the challenges inside the tunnel.