“The wife and daughters of missing CNET senior editor James Kim have been found alive and airlifted to a local hospital, authorities announced at a press conference in Merlin, Ore., Monday afternoon,” Leslie Katz and Michelle Meyers report for CNET News.
“James Kim left the car on foot two days ago to seek help and has not been found, the official said. The search for him continues,” Katz and Meyers report.
“According to the official speaking at the news conference, the conditions of Kati, Penelope and Sabine are not yet known. More details are expected at a press conference at 5 p.m. PST, which CNET will stream live,” Katz and Meyers report.
“At approximately 1:45 p.m. PST, search-and-rescue officials were notified that a vehicle and a female waving an umbrella were spotted by a helicopter search crew near the Rogue River in the area of Bear Camp Viewpoint off Bear Camp Road, according to a statement from Oregon State Police. This location is near the Curry/Josephine County line in Josephine County,” Katz and Meyers report. “The official speaking at the press conference said that the helicopter had been hired by family members.”
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La dee dah.. some real curmudgeons here..
I’m really tired of people not interested in an article clicking on the link and posting some stupid assinine “how is this XX related” “I don’t care” rubbish.
Go pound sand and while you’re at it, tie an anchor around your foot and jump in a deep lake, and don’t come back!
“B, He wrote the MP3 reviews at CNET (iPod)”
Okay, let me get this straight. On November 17, he writes a review of the Zune giving it a 7.3 (where he gives the 30GB iPod an 8.9). Then he packs up and heads north, towards Washington State.
Microsoft Hit Squad. I just know it.
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“[…] does anyone find it odd that a noted TECH JOURNALIST apparently did not have a functional cell phone by which to get help, nor a GPS to track his way back to civilization?”
I gotta admit, this one struck me as odd as well. Though, GPS/Cell Phones do have issues in canyons, so that probably explains it.
Maybe they’ll find him by the glow of his iPod screen…
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Thank you MDN for posting this story.. because of the web’s innate intimacy, and my addiction to learning about anything tech, it’s like I know him personally.
How’s Veronica gonna do the Crave vidcasts without him?
My thoughts are with James, and his family and friends.
Um, so why were they using some really out of the way road? That is just dumb. Really dumb. Wonder if his Garmin GPS was working, after all, he is a CNET editor. And we all know how good CNET does…
SeanMon: So pessimistic! There is still hope.
However, being from Montana myself, I know that it’s a fairly well known fact of wilderness survival that you have a greater chance of survival staying in your vehicle than hiking on foot.
I don’t know why this is affecting me so much… maybe because I’ve listened to his podcasts and watched his vodcasts. I can’t imagine how much despair his wife is in now (his kids are probably a little young to be grasping it fully).
ibookfaster: I’d guess Veronica will find another co-host. Tom just didn’t seem very comfortable in front of a camera, although with some practice, he might be a good replacement IF James is not able to do it.
P.S. Yeah! Thanks for posting this story MDN. I was so pleased when I saw this duplicated in my MDN feed.
Which is why I stay in town as much as possible. Nature is for animals and the discovery chanel.
I feel like I’ve known James Kim for years. From the days of TechTV, The ScreenSavers, and so on. Then to CNET and all of his reviews. I hope they find him safe, although I admit it might be a long shot.
I used to go with a group of Land Rover friends out into the high deserts of eastern Oregon and northern Nevada, and I can attest to the fact that it’s not an easy place to live without equipment and good survival skills.
Praying.
Update: There are officers tracking his footsteps into the wilderness. They figured out the approximate location by a cell-phone tower record. His wife and children were stranded for nine days in that car – first they ran out of fuel trying to stay warm, and then they started burning the tyres for heat. It looks like those techniques worked to keep them all alive. James went for help, but perhaps has ended up in a river or some sort of gulley. They’re still looking, and are using infrared cameras during the night tonight.
I hope he’s warm enough to show up on the scopes.
Praying.
apparently, this is a common occurence here and this happened last yr, and the yr before…
I didnt know about it cuz i just moved here but everyone is just raving about it in my unix class. >.<
He’s bear turd by now
that’s what i call bad karma
CNN is reporting this morning that they found his pants. This is unfortunate, and does not bode well for Kim’s condition. One of the cruelest ironies of hypothermia as it deeply sets in is the feeling that you are indeed burning up, and the victim will often begin shedding clothes to “cool off”. Hopefully, this will end out well, but this certainly is not a good sign.
It is a horrible thing to lose someone you love, But looking at the facts I cannot help but think that he really was not using his head.
He obiously knows what a gps unit does, and yet he goes to a rural area that he is not very familiar with and gets lost, and on top of that its Winter here in Oregon, And we actually have seasons, a little different from San Francisco weather. Dangerous road conditions!!!! I always carry chains, flashlights, batteries, tools, flares, deicer, onstar, cell phones, and I always have maps for wherever I go. I’m not going to take my family to their death or mine because of my own lack of preperation or plain stupidity.
Know the dangers and know your surroundings.
I don’t think that this would have ever have made the news had it not been for him working for Cnet. People get lost or stuck on the mountain
quite often, and it makes the local news, not national.
Get real people, man makes many bad choices pays with life and almost takes his own families life by failing to think things thru. Life goes on.
orientals don’t fare well in the oregon woods, I guess bigfoot is racist.