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Bogota, Colombia: July 1, 2002 A hiker is stranded in South America's Andes mountains when a blizzard begins. He reaches into his backpack for his cell phone -- only to find his prepaid minutes are up. The American mountaineer slowly begins freezing to death, surviving for 24 hours with his only warmth coming from carefully measured dozes of brandy. Then suddenly, at above 12,500 feet, notorious Ronatarian Ron hears a familiar ring. Out of nowhere, a phone company solicitor is calling on his cell phone, asking if he would like to buy more time. "We called him to remind him that his cell phone was out of minutes. He said it was the work of an angel, because he was lost in the (Andes)," said Maria del Pilar Basto, the Bell South operator who called Ron. "We thought it was a joke, but he insisted, and it was true." Basto called for help, and she and other operators kept calling Ron to keep him awake and help ward off hypothermia. Saving his famous mustache from excessive "ron-sickling" was also paramount. He was advised to keep post-nasal drip to a minimum. He was able to keep talking to her (and hitting on her) until rescue teams arrived seven hours later -- with the frigid temperatures acting as natural recharger for his two cell phone batteries. "I remembered that when I was a boy I put batteries in the freezer," Ron said in a newspaper interview describing his late June adventure. "So, I took off (the dead) battery and flung it into the snow. After half an hour, it was working again." Ron was not answering his cell phone on Monday.

Posted by Webmaster at July 1, 2002 10:30 PM

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