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Morning News

10-Year-Old Lost Boy Spends Night on New Hampshire Mountain

Aired February 22, 2000 - 9:14 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: A 10-year-old Massachusetts boy says he hopes to be back on the ski slopes today despite an ordeal in the mountains. The young boy became lost during a weekend ski trip in New Hampshire. He spent the night in below-freezing temperatures before he was rescued yesterday.

Gail Huff (ph) of our affiliate WCVB has his story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

GAIL HUFF, WCVB REPORTER (voice-over): Ten-year-old Ryan Lanagan came down the mountain side waving after spending 18 hours alone, lost, freezing and wet. The first one he greeted was his father.

Ryan was taken into the medical clinic and treated. He then explained to us how he got lost yesterday.

RYAN LANAGAN: I saw a trail and I thought it was like a skiing trail, so I went down it, but it was really a snow-shoeing trail. And I went, like, down a lot more and I realized that it probably wasn't going to end for a long time. I started hiking back up and then to try to find the way out. And then I just, like, spent the night.

HUFF: He knew people were out searching for him all night long. He heard them on the mountain side and in the air. But it wasn't until daybreak that he was able to flag down a Black Hawk helicopter.

R. LANAGAN: I had my jacket and it was orange, so I was just like going like this, and then they were hovering around me.

TOM LANAGAN, FATHER: He said he got exhausted from walking through the snow and trying to figure out what to do. He couldn't get back up the hill. But then he sat down to rest and fell asleep, and that's just what the Fish & Game said would happen. They said he would fall asleep in the deep snow and the snow would provide the insulation that's needed, then he would be, you know, safer that way.

HUFF: Todd Bogardus was the first searcher to find him.

TODD BOGARDUS, SEARCHER: Just seeing the shape that he was in, it was just gratifying to know he was OK, we wouldn't have to do anything more. We could just walk him out and there'd be a nice happy ending. That's the ultimate goal, and that's the joy that you get.

HUFF: We asked Ryan if he was afraid spending the entire night alone out on the mountain.

R. LANAGAN: Yes, but not as much as I would be because I knew the bears were hibernating.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: And that report of survival with a happy ending was brought to us by Gail Huff of WCVB.

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