After a week stranded in their car in a snowy Oregon woods with his wife and their daughters, an infant and a toddler, James Kim tried to save them by going for help. Their maps suggested it was a short hike to a nearby village. But they were farther away than they thought, the maps didn’t show how rough the wooded terrain would be, and the 35-year-old San Francisco technology editor apparently got lost before dying of hypothermia. Two days after he left them, his family was rescued, thanks to signals from cell phones they had left on. His body wasn’t found for two more days. You have to admire their resourcefulness, reported here and here, and his heroic decision to seek the help that hadn’t come. But the irony that, all along, food and shelter was only a few miles away, stings.
UPDATE This sad story produced many suggestions across the blogosphere for emergency gear, to be stored in the car all the time, to the extent that’s practical, Advice is here and, best of all, on this commemorative site.
Via Instapundit
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