James Kim Update
December 6, 2006 by staralicious
Filed under News, Web Star
A full-scale search is continuing for CNET senior editor James Kim, who left his family’s stranded car in snowy southwest Oregon Saturday to seek help.
Rescue teams are currently searching for James in a 5-mile stretch of a narrow canyon a few miles from where the car was found, Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson said at a press conference Tuesday, adding that “it is a very rugged, remote area; the teams are having some difficulty because of the terrain and conditions.”
Kim’s wife and two young daughters were found alive and well Monday after surviving more than a week stranded in the wilderness. They have since been reunited with family.
The lost family had “minor provisions” and stayed warm using the car heater, then burned tires when they ran out of gas, authorities said. Kati Kim also nursed the girls.
“James set up camp for them, just like it was a camping trip for them, to help them get through it. They had the store of things that they would normally have for the girls…bottled water, blankets,” Sandy Fleming, Kati’s mother, said Tuesday on the ABC program Good Morning America.
At about 1:45 p.m. PST on Monday, rescuers were notified that a vehicle and a female waving an umbrella were spotted by a helicopter search crew near the Rogue River in the area of Bear Camp Viewpoint off Bear Camp Road, according to Oregon State Police. The location is a 3,500-foot mountain pass in the Siskiyou National Forest.
The helicopter that spotted the trio was reportedly a private aircraft contracted by the family.
The Kim family left their home in San Francisco two weeks ago on a Thanksgiving road trip to the Pacific Northwest. They had been last seen on the Saturday after the holiday in Portland and later at a Denny’s restaurant in Roseburg, according to the San Francisco Police Department’s missing persons’ report.
The family was expected to return to San Francisco on Monday, November 27. When both James and Kati failed to show up for appointments on Tuesday, November 28, co-workers began to worry for their safety. The Kims are known for keeping in touch daily with their friends and co-workers, either by phone or e-mail.
In a search-and-rescue mission spanning multiple counties, state and federal personnel began searching highways and remote area roads by land and air for the family’s silver Saab station wagon. Some of those roads are difficult to travel, described by authorities as narrow and curvy, with steep bordering embankments. Sno-Cats have been assisting with the search in sections covered with up to 6 inches of frozen snow.
Kim is a senior editor covering digital audio. He also co-hosts a weekly video podcast for the Crave gadget blog. He has been writing a book on Microsoft’s Zune MP3 player. Formerly, he was an on-air personality on the now-defunct cable television network TechTV. [Source]
[tags]james, kim, missing, search[/tags]
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