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Donn Fendler, 'Lost On A Mountain In Maine' Author, Dies 

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When Donn Fendler was 12, he endured nine days alone in the Maine wilderness². He later wrote a book about the ordeal³ titled "Lost On A Mountain In Maine." It became a classic for grade school kids. Donn Fendler died over the weekend at the age of 90. Susan Sharon of Maine Public Radio reports his legacy⁴ lives on in the imaginations of thousands of children.

SUSAN SHARON, BYLINE⁵: Donn Fendler's epic⁶ journey began near the summit of Mount Katahdin, Maine's tallest mountain. It was July 1939. It was foggy. It was raining. And young Donn was impatient. This is the description from his book.

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DONN FENDLER: I was cold and shivering, and I never was good at standing⁷ cold anyway. Nights when Ryan and Tom slept with only a sheet over them, Dad always came in with a blanket for me.

SHARON: Instead of waiting for his father and the rest of his hiking party to catch up, Fendler took off down the mountain. And for the next nine days, he was lost.

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D. FENDLER: There were plenty of times I wanted to give up and just say, to heck with it, like those last few days. But you just keep going. I don't know what it - like I told you, it's your will to live.

SHARON: In the documentary "Finding Donn Fendler," Fendler describes nearly passing out from exhaustion⁸ on the day he was found more than 35 miles away. He'd lost his jeans and his shoes, was covered in mosquito bites and survived a tumble down an embankment and an encounter with black bears. But his twin brother, Ryan, says Donn remembered something he'd learned in the Boy Scouts⁹ - to follow a stream, which he did.

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RYAN FENDLER: He then came across an old cabin, and there was a potato sack in there and a few other little things that he could us. But he ate berries and drank water and really didn't have anything to eat. And he was, you know, below 70 pounds when they found him.

SHARON: hundreds of people searched for Fendler. The story of the boy lost in the Maine woods captured newspaper headlines around the country. Ryan Fendler says at around day 5, many gave up hope his brother would be found alive. Days later, Fendler stumbled upon a hunting camp and flagged down the occupants. The book about his ordeal was published in 1978, and friends and family members say sharing that story with schoolchildren was one of his greatest joys.

LYNN PLOURDE: I loved the man, and I loved the hero. He was a hero and an inspiration and an icon¹⁰ to so many people.

SHARON: Children's book author Lynn Plourde says her friend Don Fendler inspired kids because he could make them believe that they, too, could survive a perilous¹¹ adventure with a little bit of luck and by never, ever giving up. "Lost On A Mountain In Maine" has long been required reading for many fourth graders in Maine and beyond. For NPR News, I'm Susan Sharon.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 wilderness   

n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

3 ordeal   

n.苦难经历，（尤指对品格、耐力的）严峻考验

参考例句：

• She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
• Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。

4 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

7 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

8 exhaustion   

n.耗尽枯竭，疲惫，筋疲力尽，竭尽，详尽无遗的论述

参考例句：

• She slept the sleep of exhaustion.她因疲劳而酣睡。
• His exhaustion was obvious when he fell asleep standing.他站着睡着了，显然是太累了。

9 scouts   

侦察员[机，舰]( scout的名词复数 )； 童子军； 搜索； 童子军成员

参考例句：

• to join the Scouts 参加童子军
• The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组，然后开始巡逻这个地区。

10 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

11 perilous   

adj.危险的，冒险的

参考例句：

• The journey through the jungle was perilous.穿过丛林的旅行充满了危险。
• We have been carried in safety through a perilous crisis.历经一连串危机，我们如今已安然无恙。