The Public Eye: Norman Ollestad - Crazy For The Storm

In February 1979, a chartered Cessna carrying 11-year old Norman
Olstead, his father, his father’s girlfriend and the pilot, crashed
into Southern California’s San Gabriel Mountains. Norman’s father -- a
man who was both his coach and hero—was dead, his girlfriend soon to
follow. Suspended at over 8,000 feet and engulfed in a blizzard, the
grief-stricken boy descended the icy mountain alone. Putting his
father’s passionate lessons to work, Norman defied the elements and
made it through alive -- the sole survivor of the crash. As he told the
Los Angeles Times after his ordeal, “My dad told me never to give up.”