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The body of James Kim has been found.



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I just read that too

flopstock;478337 wrote: Have you got a link to a story?


No, sorry, just got a breaking news thing from CNN. Check their site,

might have more.

I just heard that in the car....:-1

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Searchers find lost dad dead

The body of a San Francisco man who had walked into the Oregon wilderness to find help for his stranded family was found Wednesday. James Kim, 35, walked into the snowy Oregon mountains Saturday leaving his wife and two young daughters in the family car. They were rescued by searchers on Monday, but he never returned to their car.

DEVELOPING STORY

Damn!

Very sad. :-1

Part of me hoped they would find him alive, but another part of me figured they would not. That is sad when something like this happens. He was just trying to save his family.

I have chills, he's a hero in my book...very sad....

I just want to say something about this story... it's very easy to sit

at home and second guess all this... but when you really think about it,

those 2 people, that mom and that dad, must have agonized over their

decision to have the dad go for help.



I don't know if any of you heard the James and Jennifer Stolpa story,

in that one the dad leaving and going for help worked out and all 3 of

them got out alive.



That mom to me is unbelieveable, breast-feeding those 2 kids for all that

time. Her body must have drawn on every reserve it had.



But I do have to say, I was taught years ago (Brownies even maybe?)

that the very SECOND you realized you were lost, stay put. The car was

a little bit better "shelter" than the outdoors. And I wouldn't have

used ALL of the gas nor burned the tires, once that snow melted (which

it had) they might have been able to turn around and get out of there.



It just really brings home the need to PREPARE for any and every

eventuality. Listening to some of those copter pilots, if I'm ever in

conditions like those I'm making sure I have a couple bright orange

tarps with me.



It's really, really a sad lesson for all of us.

Authorities: Kims took road opened by vandal



James Kim and his family were able to drive down a remote logging road because a vandal had cut open a locked metal gate, authorities say. The family got stranded on the normally closed road, and Kim died of exposure after setting out on foot to find help......this makes the story even more tragic, it didn't have to happen.