One moment, 12-year-old Donn Fendler was hiking with his family near the summit of Maine’s tallest mountain. The next, he was gone — vanished into the dense wilderness around  Mount Katahdin. It was ...

Donn Fendler credited wild berries and a Boy Scout's 'never-give-up attitude' for his survival after he was separated from his family, aged 12, atop Maine's highest peak in 1939.. They helped him ...

Fendler, left, and his twin brother, Ryan, are pictured in this photo that ran in the Portland Press Herald on July 2, 1940. Fendler passed away in 2016 at the age of 90.

The inspiring story of Donn Fendler, the 12-year-old boy who survived a nine-day-long trek through the Katahdin Wilderness after being separated from his family on a hike to the summit, has been a ...

FILE - Donn Fendler chats with a young reader at a book signing in Bangor, Maine, Nov. 19, 2011. (AP Photo/Michael C. York, File) PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Most Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week in 1939 after climbing the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the ...