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Robert Sumrall is a man who in 2009 survived being lost in the Gila National Forest in southwestern New Mexico for seven days enduring sub-freezing weather conditions without food, water, or camping gear.〔 ==Reported missing== A resident of El Paso, Texas, he traveled to Emory Pass in the Black Range east of Silver City, New Mexico. There, he set out alone on Saturday, November 28 for a day hike, planning to return home that night. When he did not return his family was concerned but waited until Sunday morning to call authorities. Filing a missing person report and looking for Sumrall's vehicle used up precious hours. Police found the vehicle at the trailhead in Emory Pass at elevation. In accord with New Mexico state law, finding the vehicle at a trailhead triggered activation of volunteer search and rescue (SAR) resources affiliated with New Mexico State Police. SAR field teams began searching late Sunday afternoon. Grant County Search and Rescue (based in Silver City) was soon joined by Organ Mountain Technical Rescue 〔http://www.omtrs.net〕 and Mesilla Valley Search and Rescue (Las Cruces) Additional SAR resources were called from Alamogordo and Ruidoso as well as the United States National Guard, United States Border Patrol, United States Forest Service officers, and others.〔 Searching continued through Sunday night to Monday evening, when it was suspended overnight due to dangerous weather. It resumed Tuesday morning and was still ongoing on Friday afternoon when Sumrall was found. Sumrall, age 67, left home dressed in shorts and a sweatshirt, taking with him a windbreaker, jeans, food, water, and his dog Zulu.〔 Initial search efforts concentrated on where Sumrall had said he planned to hike: the Emory Pass Vista trail, a trail running north and south along the crest of the Black Range. On Sunday night snow began to fall on the Black Range. More than of snow fell in the search area Sunday through Tuesday, temperatures were in the upper 20s to lower 30s Fahrenheit ( °C), and wind gusts up to contributed wind chill and poor visibility.〔 These conditions limited the searchers' efforts, and the snow obscured any tracks or other signs of Sumrall's passage. On Tuesday evening fresh tracks were found on other trails. Those trails had cabins on them, raising hopes that the tracks were Sumrall's and that he would find shelter and survive.〔 Incident Commander Reuben Gonzales said teams searching through Tuesday night in knee-deep snow found new tracks but were not sure the tracks belonged to Sumrall because a Border Patrol search dog team had also been in the area. On Wednesday Gonzales interviewed someone who had talked to Sumrall on Saturday morning. Based on information obtained from the interviewee, search efforts on Thursday and Friday were concentrated on an area west of the crest trail, south of Iron Creek Campground, south of Emory Pass, and would include Sawyer's Peak and a trail that goes to Tierra Blanca Canyon, on the east side of the crest.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Sumrall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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