The Best Stories You've nEver Read #29

Emotional trek to Sierra crash site for man who lost his legs at age 10.

It was one of the more miraculous rescues ever accomplished. A 10-year-old boy survived a plane crash in the Northern California wilderness in the midst of a deadly winter storm. He remained trapped in the plane with his two dead parents for five days, sucking on handfuls of snow to stay alive. Searchers figured they were probably on a recovery mission, not a rescue. But they found Donnie Priest alive. That was 26 years ago. Recently Priest returned with the men who saved him to the mountain where he lost his parents and life began anew.  He climbed to the rescue site on two prosthetic legs. Click on the link above to read this compelling tale in the San Francisco Chronicle.

-- Dick Weiss