Body of Missing Man Found Dead in Oregon
A San Francisco man who got stranded in the snowy wilderness with his family nearly two weeks ago was found dead Wednesday in a mountain creek, authorities said.
James Kim’s body was discovered in Oregon’s snowy Coast Range two days after his wife and two daughters were rescued from their car, stuck on a remote road. Kim had set out on foot over the weekend to find help for his family.
Ground crews and helicopters had been searching the area for Kim for days.
Kim, 35, was a senior editor for the technology media company CNET Networks Inc. He and his family had been missing since Nov. 25. They were heading home to San Francisco after a family vacation in the Pacific Northwest.
Yeah, I know. It’s not funny. But these headline writers have no respect for the dead persons of missing bodies in Oregon.
UPDATED: For MayBee
Experts: Burning Tires Bad Idea
Earlier, to keep his family warm and to serve as a signal, Mr. Kim had decided to remove the tires from his stranded vehicle and burn them. Cathyrine Ann Warburton-Smythe of Mothers Against Tire Burning had this to say:
“One can understand how in such an extremity, one might be tempted to burn tires to keep one’s family warm. In point of fact, there’s no point in their keeping warm if you are exposing them to the kinds of toxins you are releasing into the atmosphere by improper disposal of tires.”
Hey, the people who write those headlines are Professional Journalistsâ„¢! How DARE you question their linguistic abilities. You’re just a lowly blogger.
I respect the late Mr. Kim immensely. Sure, it was dumb for him to get his family into that fix in the first place. But, from the press reports, he was doing a very savvy job of guiding the searchers to his location, with bits of maps and clothing and such. It’s just a shame he couldn’t hang on long enough to be rescued.
First Rule of Being Lost in the Wilderness: Stay the fuck PUT!
The news show no respect for the truth why would the show respect for a death? I don’t think they look at their own headlines. Working at a company that works for newspapers, the funniest headline I ever saw was ‘the pen is mightier then the sword’ of course they forgot the space between the ‘pen’ and the ‘is’.
About Kim – It’s a sad story, I remember watching him on fresh gear on the old Techtv channel, my thoughts are with his family.
I’m disappointed they couldn’t quote any experts.
It is a very sad story.
McGehee is right.
As a helicopter pilot that has been in too many searches, it is so much easier to find the vehicle, aircraft, or whatever than one person in the deep dark piney woods. This was obviously a very intelligent, educated, caring man that was totally unprepared. It is a shame for his family.
If you don’t know exactly where you are and can see where you want to go, STAY PUT. The family is alive.
I think it’s a shame to start seeing things like:caring man that was totally unprepared and Sure, it was dumb for him to get his family into that fix in the first place.
I’m sure the odds are on the person that stays put. But we’ve all heard the stories of the guy that cut off his own arm so he could rappel down a cliff and walk until he was rescued, and the man who led rescuers back to his wife trapped in the snow-covered car.
I’ve got to imagine that after several days of sitting in the car with nobody showing up, you second guess the decision to not go look for help.
Make that 9 days while I’m watching my wife and 2 kids run out of food and hope and I’m walking.
After about 36 hours of my daughter complaining, I’d probably wander off just to shorten my suffering.
Aw, the poor man. I’m sorry to hear this. If you’re in such a situation, it’s hard to know what to do. For all he knew, no one would ever find them. There is no conventional wisdom. God bless him. It’s a pity.
maybee
The family is alive. He is dead. What don’t you understand?
MayBee,
The guy who cut off his own arm to free himself from being trapped while mountain climbing alone … and without telling anyone where he went … is not a survival success story. Its just a story that did not have the worse possible ending.
I tell my students when teaching survival topics that it is not a survival goal to be one-armed and on a speaking tour.
The arm guy was also involved in one or two small avalanches while alone.
As for Kim, he was on a road, he was apparently only at 3000’, and one story said there was only 6” of snow on the roads they were searching. Unless he had to keep going up over passes, and unless they had taken several wrong turns, it seems like he could have walked back along the road the way they came. AFAIK, they only took one turn, from the main backroad onto a gravel road.
It also seems that the main backroad was well known locally. Even considering that they took the gravel road apparently a few miles, it seems like they should have been found sooner.
Slightly expanded comments at my link.