Subject of 'Lost on a Mountain in Maine' dies at 90

Donn Fendler, 12, his feet still bandaged from his days alone in the Maine woods, waves from the back of a car in 1939 as he is honored in his hometown of Rye, N.Y. Fendler, who survived nine days alone on Maine's tallest mountain and later collaborated on a book about the ordeal, died Monday, Oct 10, 2016, in Bangor, Maine. He was 90. PORTLAND, Maine - Donn Fendler, who as a boy survived nine days alone on Maine's tallest mountain in 1939 and later wrote a book about the ordeal, has died at 90. Fendler collaborated with Joseph B. Egan on a book, "Lost on a Mountain in Maine," which was required reading for many fourth-graders in Maine.
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