Donn Fendler, who, at age 12, gained fame for surviving nine days lost in the Maine wilderness. (Lost on a Mountain in Maine/Facebook Photo)

Donn Fendler, who, at age 12, gained fame for surviving nine days lost in the Maine wilderness. (Lost on a Mountain in Maine/Facebook Photo)

Donn Fendler, who famously survived more than a week while lost on Mount Katahdin in 1939, died Sunday at age 90, according to an article on BangorDailyNews.com.

While climbing Katahdin at age 12, Fendler became separated from his family near the summit during a storm. The search for him became national news, and a week after he was lost, many people thought he’d never be found alive.

But nine days after he disappeared, Fendler was found at a hunting camp 35 miles from where he was last seen. How he survived during those nine days was recounted in the novel ‘Lost on a Mountain in Maine,’ which was required reading for many Mainers in the fourth-grade Maine Studies curriculum.

Read about the death of Donn Fendler, who gained fame as the boy who was “Lost on a Mountain in Maine.”