<div>When a small Cessna went down in the San Gabriel Mountains in February 1979, eleven-year-old Norman Ollestad was thrust into a fight for his life. Stranded in a blizzard on alpine terrain more than 8,500 feet up, he drew on the skills and grit he’d learned from his father to make his way out.
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Sources:</strong> <em>Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival,</em> by Norman Ollestad (2009).

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