“When it comes up to a bad situation, they’re going to find out how tough a person they are in the heart and the mind - it’s called the will to live.”įendler lived in Clarksville, Tennessee, but had a summer home in Newport, Maine, the town where his family, from Rye, New York, was vacationing at Sebasticook Lake when he got lost. “I tell every one of them they have something inside them they don’t know they have,” he told The Associated Press in 2011. He never seemed to tire of recounting the tale to children. Bruised and cut, starved and shoeless, he’d survived by eating berries. He loved telling his story to kids to help them keep their cool if they get lost,” his niece, Nancy Fendler, said.įendler said he used techniques learned as a Boy Scout to survive on Mount Katahdin, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.Īs a 12-year-old, Fendler got lost while hiking and made his way down the mountain and through the woods to the east branch of the Penobscot River, where he was found more than 30 miles from where he started. He died Monday in Bangor, Maine, after being hospitalized for failing health, family members said. He also enjoyed visiting schools to tell his story. Egan on a book, “Lost on a Mountain in Maine,” which was required reading for many fourth-graders in Maine.
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Donn Fendler, who as a boy survived nine days alone on Maine’s tallest mountain in 1939 and later wrote a book about the ordeal, has died at 90.įendler collaborated with Joseph B.
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