superhuman

Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/06/missing.family/index.html

i tuned in to CNN a couple of weeks ago and heard news of a family ( husband, wife and two very young daughters ) who were missing since Thanksgiving. this Monday the search and rescue team found the mother and the children, but the father was no where to be found. the mother told the media they took a wrong turn in their car and found themselves stranded in snow and lost with their young daughters on one of Oregon's treacherous backroads. The father then decided to find for help and left on foot with VERY minimal resources Saturday.

then just yesterday i saw on MSN's homepage that they found the father dead. he walked 9 miles in an unforgiving terrain, without food, and with only they very basic of clothing. the search and rescue team wasn't able to make that kind of distance, and they had full gear. they called his effort "superhuman".

i really expected the father would be found alive and this event would turn out as one of those heroic family stories were dad saves family by leaving them and facing danger himself. but nature was just too much and he succumbed to it.

my prayers to his family.. =