The Mile-Long Tunnel of Altiplano | The 2015 Prison Escape of El Chapo

On July 11, 2015, inside Mexico's highest-security federal prison, the world's most notorious cartel leader stepped into his private cell shower and vanished completely from the face of the earth. Beneath the concrete floor lay an engineering masterpiece: a mile-long, ventilated, lighted tunnel equipped with a customized motorcycle mounted on steel rails. Experience this full-length historical documentary audiobook detailing the most audacious, high-technology prison break of the twenty-first century. From the purchase of a lonely cinderblock house in an open cornfield and the secret excavation of over three thousand tons of earth sixty feet underground to the GPS-guided breakthrough directly beneath the shower drain and the global manhunt that followed, discover the true story of how Joaquin Guzman escaped from Altiplano. Settle in, put on your headphones, and witness the incredible cat-and-mouse battle of technology, corruption, and subterranean engineering. Chapters: 00:00 The Fortress on the High Plateau 02:37 Chapter 1: The Fortress of Almoloya de Juárez 04:47 Chapter 2: The Camera Blind Spot in Cell 20 06:58 Chapter 3: The Cinderblock House in the Cornfield 09:05 Chapter 4: Sinking the Sixty-Foot Vertical Shaft 11:12 Chapter 5: The GPS Precision of the Smuggled Watch 13:24 Chapter 6: Three Thousand Tons of Earth 15:30 Chapter 7: The Underground Railway of Cell 20 17:19 Chapter 8: The Motorcycle on the Rails 19:12 Chapter 9: The Tile Cut Beneath the Shower 21:16 Chapter 10: Eight-Fifty-Two PM: The Disappearance 23:01 Chapter 11: The Ride Through the Mile-Long Dark 24:51 Chapter 12: The Waiting Airplane in the Desert 26:14 Chapter 13: The Twenty-Minute Delay 28:16 Chapter 14: The Global Shock and the Manhunt 29:48 Chapter 15: Operation Black Swan and the Final Capture 31:53 The Limits of the Steel Wall AI-assisted narration & visuals · Original story & script, made for this channel. ▶ More from this channel: Trapped in the Firestorm | The True Survival Story of the 1910 Big Burn -    • Trapped in the Firestorm | The True Surviv...   #PrisonBreak #ElChapo #Altiplano #TrueCrime #HistoricalDocumentary