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Editor's Note: This news item was retrieved and first published through NY Post's website.
A trail runner crawled for 11 hours in freezing temperatures after breaking a leg in a remote national park in Washington on a snowy trail. He was only wearing shorts and light shirt in freezing temperatures. Despite below-freezing temperatures, Joseph Oldendorf crawled for almost seven hours before getting cellphone service, and then another four hours to finally reach rescuers in Olympic National Forest.
NY Post writer, Lee Brown, covers in an article, "At one point, he stopped to lie down, hoping help would soon be there. “But I was way too cold and there was no way I could do it without moving, so I just decided to keep moving towards them,” he told the station." Jefferson Search and Rescue noted in a Facebook post that the runner had “little clothing and equipment” in “sub-freezing temperatures with occasional light precipitation.” “He’s a lucky guy,” Brinnon Fire Department’s Jerry Rule, one of the first to reach Oldendorf, told KIRO-TV.
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