Book lost on a mountain in maine5/27/2023 ![]() "When we would do signings there would literally be hundreds of people in line," said Plourde, who helped Fendler turn his book into a graphic novel, "He would talk to each person when they came through that line, kids would write to him and he would answer each letter." "If I, as an author, were to write the story as fiction, an editor would say 'no, no, no, that could never have happened' but it really did."įendler's story of survival became the book 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine', it was read in many Maine classrooms that Fendler would end up visiting. "I call it a true story that's more unbelievable than fiction," said friend and fellow author Lynn Plourde. ![]() He was covered in bug bites, dehydrated and had lost 16 pounds. "By the end of five or six days, we were almost getting used to the idea that he wasn't going to come back."įor nine days, Fendler used his Boy Scout skills to stay alive and eventually find help. "Every day they found something, oh, he's down in that hole down there, you know, it was terrible on my mother and us too," said Fendler's twin brother Ryan Fendler. ![]() It prompted massive searches and made headlines across the country. While hiking Mount Katahdin, 12-year-old Fendler got separated from the group in a storm. ![]() Family members say he died Monday at 90 years old.įendler's story captivated the people of Maine and beyond in 1939 when he and his family were visiting from New York. He was the legend behind the book 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine'. ![]()
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