Climbers Stranded on Oregon's Mt. Hood Owe Rescue to Two Young Boys
NATALIE ALLEN, CNN ANCHOR: Two climbers stranded on Oregon's Mount Hood owe their rescue and a big thank you to two young boys. Kelly Day (ph) from CNN station KION has the story from Sandy, Oregon.</s>UNIDENTIFIED ANCHOR: Unable to move, they cry out for help and two children in McMinnville hear them. Good evening everyone, I'm...</s>FLETCHER WOLD, RESCUER: That's us.</s>KELLY DAY, KION REPORTER (voice-over): That's 7-year-old Fletcher and 5-year-old Park Wold. They were watching a movie at a friend's house and heard the call for help on their walkie-talkie.</s>F. WOLD: We heard a guy talking to us real scratchy.</s>PARKER WOLD, RESCUER: People was on the mountain.</s>DAY: The voice on the radio said something about Mount Hood and Fletcher knew there was trouble.</s>F. WOLD: Yes, I could tell because if he wasn't injured he wouldn't be calling.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You sensed there was trouble of some kind.</s>F. WOLD: Yes, my bones could smell it.</s>DAY: Well, his bones were right. A rock slide hit the two climbers as they were climbing Mount Hood on the Sandy Glacier. Twenty-three-year-old Ian Morris of Portland suffered injuries to his hand, but his partner suffered a fractured hip.</s>F. WOLD: Can you hear me? over.</s>MIKE WOLD, FATHER: Yes, Roger, go ahead.</s>DAY: After Fletcher and Parker told their dad about the problem, he took over the radio and started talking to the injured climbers on Mount Hood 81 miles away.</s>M. WOLD: We bought these radios at Radio Shack that are advertised for a two-mile range. But, you know, they're like a VHF radio: line of sight, they'll go pretty much as far as you can see.</s>DAY: Mike Wold called the Clackamas County Sheriff's Department. That's when the 939th Rescue Wing moved in and, at 7,000 feet, safely airlifted the climbers to the hospital.</s>M. WOLD: It's just lucky that the boys heard them, you know, really lucky.</s>F. WOLD: Hello, daddy, hello. Can you hear me? Makes me feel good that I helped someone. That's not something to lie about.</s>LOU WATERS, CNN ANCHOR: That's amazing.</s>ALLEN: Lou's making notes...</s>WATERS: Yes, I am.</s>ALLEN: ... because we're talking with Fletcher and his dad in our next hour because we like this story.</s>WATERS: Way to go, Fletcher.</s>ALLEN: Yes.