James Kim
Speaking as the father of young children, as well as a frequent backcrountry winter hiker, I am deeply saddened that the search for CNET editor James Kim has concluded with finding him dead. While finding his wife and two children alive earlier in the week was great news, it is Kim's immense exertions on behalf of his snow-stranded family that brought the story to me in a very personal way :By the time he was found, the CNET senior editor from San Francisco had covered about eight miles in the treacherous terrain over four days and five nights, including swimming across the creek at one point when air temperatures dipped into the 20s, a search crew member said.Superhuman, perhaps, but also the kind of prodigious effort the parent of any young child can understand. My heart goes out to his family.
"It seems superhuman to me that he was able to cover the distance that he had," Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson said.
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