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"They were told hours earlier to shelter in place upon calling 911 as temperatures plummeted below freezing... 'They were literally worried about being blown off the mountain.'"

The former longtime journalist [Donald MacGillis, 74] suffered chest injuries and a broken leg in the fall, which occurred at about 3 a.m. Wednesday as he stood up and stepped away from the trail. 

He and his nephew [Paul MacGillis] were rescued some seven hours later, but MacGillis died from his injuries at a hospital in Bangor, his son [Alec] said. ?Paul was extraordinary and kept him going throughout the night,? Alec MacGillis told the newspaper. ?It was just heroic.? 

MacGillis climbed the mountain every year with a hiking group and was eager to make the trip up the 5,269-foot mountain ? Maine?s tallest peak [Mount Katahdin] ? with his nephew... 'You could hear the light in his voice,'... 

 ?MacGillis regarded journalism as the noblest of professions,? said the Eagle?s executive editor, Kevin Moran. ?A newsman through and through, he loved breaking the news and demanded that journalists dig deep and investigate and report sides of the story the public wasn?t getting.?  

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