BANGOR DAILY NEWS • November 7, 2024
“Lost on a Mountain in Maine” is an amazing movie. The filmmakers let the story of 12-year-old Donn Fendler’s nine-day odyssey lost in the northern Maine woods tell itself. A key part of this survival story missing involves two BDN staffers named Eddie Baker and Wayne St. Germain. They drove to Grindstone, then hiked 7.5 miles to Lunksoos Camps, beating a doctor and officers to the scene by 20 minutes. Baker photographed the emaciated Fendler while St. Germain conducted a brief interview. In the meantime, BDN photographer Dan Maher drove to the area with a Wirephoto machine and transmitted Baker’s pictures via a telephone line to the newspaper in Bangor. The next morning’s edition, July 26, had the first photos and interview with the young Boy Scout. ~ Richard R. Shaw, Bangor