Rescuer Descends into 20ft Well, Single-handedly Carrying Writhing 6ft Python to Safety in India

A brave animal rescuer made a perilous climb down to a well while tied to a rope to save a six-foot-long rock python.

Govind Solanki, a volunteer with Wild and Street Animal Rescue Society in India, saved the snake stuck in a 20ft-deep well.

Footage shows the snake floating at the bottom of the well. Rescuers try to use a branch attached to a rope to hoist the snake out of the water

When their other efforts fail, one volunteer rapels down the well with a rope around his waist. Govind Solanki, a volunteer with Wild and Street Animal Rescue Society in India, can be seen glancing down to make sure the snake is always in sight

Footage shows the snake floating at the bottom of the well.

One man can be seen lowering a rope into the water while lying on his stomach and leaning over the edge.

The video then cuts to show a branch on the end of the rope being lowered into the water in the hopes of hooking the snake and pulling it out.

Mr Solanki grabs the snake by its neck and and clambers out of the well as the stone walls crumble around him

When this fails, a brave volunteer ⁠— dressed in a blue and white striped t-shirt ⁠— is lowered into the water with a frayed brown rope wrapped around his waist.

Other volunteers pull the python off his arm once Mr Solanki is safely back on the ground. The incredible footage was captured by an onlooker

Volunteers pose with the six-foot-long Rock Python once it was rescued from the well. These snakes are not venomous and have been known to grow to 15ft long

Once rescued, it was released safely back into the wild.

Indian rock pythons are known as python molurus. They generally reside in a variety of different habitats but they need a permanent source of water (stock image)

The snake is released safely back into the wild. Volunteers believed the python had been stuck in the well for a few days and called it a ‘difficult’ rescue

Indian rock pythons, known as python molurus, generally reside in a variety of different habitats but they need a permanent source of water.

While they can survive under water for minutes at a time, they choose to remain near river banks.

They are not venomous and have been known to grow to 15ft long.