The Boy Scout army saves 78 years of death in Sierra without food, water, shelter

At first, Charlie Hey, 12, did not think of much about it when his boy was a scout boy passing the east in the deep edge of the deep desert.

The man, Douglas Montgomery, 78, was a little bit worn in Sierra’s top conditions and, surprisingly, was not water.

“I thought, ‘Well, then you make the day,'” said Charlie.

Following a few steps after boys, Scurmaster MJ Hey – Daddy-Charlie – didn’t shock too much, at least at first. Ojoy hey recalls: “He didn’t look like you were in a big problem.

But hey had training in searching and saving, so he hit a conversation in Mondgomery and asked a few few questions. Among them, he remembered: “Mate, has a backpack?”

The story of Mondgomery was thin. It was in the contact areas such as Vietnamese and Alaska, and the helicopter ended for security in Montgomery and at the end of the end of the rules of Troop 26.

Montgomery was widely found in the wilderness and scoutaster itself. But this journey was loited by his pack and gracious of the elements from, hungry, with a perverted wind and trembling under the needle bed. He had trouble walking when Troop 26 arrives.

“It sounds really a sense of home,” Charlie said. “Oh, this is possible to anyone.”

“It is true,” Montgomery agreed to the latest interview. However, he added, the journey and contains important – education student. “I allowed myself to lose my package,” she said. “I’m 78 years old, so I don’t have to attend, but I love you so much, I couldn’t give him strength until I couldn’t do it.”

Nine of the nine boys of Troop 26 began in Aug. 2 For a high-level trip in Sierra in the north of Yosemite. On the fourth day, boys – and five adults – look at their camp near Long Lake when they arrived in Montgomery.

As Montgomery tells us, he fell into the lake, damaged his neck, influenced. He boarded his bedding without dinner, because he knew that it was so important to warm before the loaves at night until he made himself. The next morning, he said, He ate breakfast and took his package – with all his survivors, including a rescue device – to stop his way.

Then, in some way, he lost his pack and walked the kilometers on the opposite of what he thought he was going.

Spending a cold night in things, he is willing with pine needles.

He said: “When the sun came out, he saw that” I couldn’t leave. Folding all night makes it difficult for me to leave. ”

“I was starting to get cold and cold,” he said. “And that’s when [Troop 26] He came. “

Montgomery said it found statistics may be ok whatever. He had returned to this trail, and there are many of the villages that might come Him.

Oops take it? Mondgomery’s condition was very critical.

He once started talking to Montgomery, Hey said, “All the flags began to grow me.” Montgomery was completely inconsistent, “said he.

Hey is a British and spent his training in the childhood of the Air Force foremost before migrating to Santa Barbara after the Industry Industry. He said he decided that he needed to get a person out of the wilderness.

The question was. He sent to Troop Boys to the next camp with three leaders. He and Orin Roe, a Troop Help Scoutmaster, was left behind to make a plan.

They helped Montgomery to sit on a rock in the heat of the warming, giving him food and electrolytes scouts offered their belongings and used their Garmin satellite system.

(This also causes a warning to a Hey wife.

Communication with auxiliarity, Hey gave a careful state of the situation in Mondgomery, including the prescribed medicines that he had never lost his package. California Highway Patrol sent a helicopter.

While they wait, HE and Montgomery sold stories.

Montgomery, mythology also related to Santa Barbara Independent, told Hey a journey of two weeks when he was traveling to his pack and hit where he was.

He was living a life that would lead him to such faith in his 9000 meters in the standing or compliance of Argentina and Chile, and Himalayas. He also won almost the rest of the mountains on the west coast.

It was worth it was saved by Scors Scouts in the closest mountains at home. He was an Eagle’s eagle in his youth and in scoutmaster. “Broop 10 in BurmyGiling,” he told Santa Barbara independent. “We took scouts in the wilderness that migrated for almost 20 years.”

While hey also waited with Mondgomery to find a helicopter, Boys of Troop 26 And they continued to go to Mejam Lake, where they stopped camp. Charlie said they saw a low backway, the world, and flight and in Mondgomery. His nephew met him when he returned to the highway. He recovered enough to do them home in San Francisco.

Rocko and Hey did to Themjeam Lake immediately behind. They stayed around the camp fire that night talking about the wonderful life of a man who saved a man who had saved and should be learned from his grief.

“The horrible part was that he was a real need for help,” said Charlie, surprising, how much a person has a lot and training can fall in such an accident when separated by important things.

Hey, who spends many hours to find out how to prepare her scout troop because of their herself, said that she would not create “a better situation to do the most Visceral and literal training.”

“It is a powerful lesson on the importance of preparing for possible risk in the wilderness,” he said. “And no matter what the situation is, you [should] Always have your own [survival] Important in your body. ”

And “it was a story to carry their whole life.”

For his part, Montgomery said, He was thrilled to see a Troop 26, because they were rescued, and because they believed it to teach young people “how to stay in the wilderness.” Such studies do not only open the magic of a mountain vistas, but teach responsibility and confidence in the back of civilization.

“I appreciate the gathering of 26,” she said.