15 January 2007
University of Wisconsin student and brother are heroes
I'm always on the look out for news about Wisconsin, and while this didn't happen here, one of the heroes is a student at UW.
Way to go Albert and Peter Kottke! And way to go Carolyn Dorn who survived on her own for 5 weeks in the wilderness!
Makes me wonder: Would I have what it takes to survive like that? (he asks as he sips more coffee, takes another bite of bagel, and settles in for 8 more hours of work in front of his computer.) I guess I don't really have to worry, huh?
"The Kottkes crossed the river to find Carolyn Dorn, 52, who had been alone in the Gila National Forest for five weeks after becoming trapped on the wrong side of the rain- and snow-swollen river. The search for her had been called off two weeks ago...
"...Dorn was about six miles from the nearest road in an area where the brothers, who have hiked in the region several times over the past two years, had never seen another human being, said Peter Kottke, whose 20th birthday was Sunday.
"When they left, she was "very alert, talkative," said Peter Kottke, a junior geological engineering major at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. "She seemed very relieved that somebody had finally found her."
Way to go Albert and Peter Kottke! And way to go Carolyn Dorn who survived on her own for 5 weeks in the wilderness!
Makes me wonder: Would I have what it takes to survive like that? (he asks as he sips more coffee, takes another bite of bagel, and settles in for 8 more hours of work in front of his computer.) I guess I don't really have to worry, huh?
