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fromLos Angeles Times
2 months agoBoy Scout troop rescues 78-year-old lost in the Sierra without food, water, shelter
But Hey had training in search and rescue, so he struck up a conversation with Montgomery and asked a few important questions. Among them, he recalled: "Mate, have you got a backpack?" Montgomery's story was a long one. It touched down in places such as Vietnam and Alaska and ended with a helicopter ride to safety for Montgomery and a sober but ultimately uplifting lesson in wilderness survival rules for Troop 26.
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