The latest CNN summary discloses that
the rescuers require
six hours to arrive where the victims are,
and five hours to get back.

And these are the fit, fed, healthy ones.

The coach is one of those being reported, amongst the victims,
as being one of the more exhausted and malnourished,
along with "two of the boys" (CNN).

It may be imagined that the coach went without food
so that the boys could go on eating longer.
I cannot begin to imagine
that coach's emotions, mind, and spirit,
not to speak of his bodily woes.

What a drama this has become.