Jack Gruber | Photojournalist

2000 Olympic wrestling gold medalist Rulon Gardner, left, laughs while sitting in his truck at an Afton, Wyoming drive-up restaurant as he shows his niece Jessica Gardner, 17, the middle toe of his right foot which had to be amputated due to severe frostbite. Gardner was snowmobiling with three friends when he became bogged down in deep snow in the Bridger-Teton National Forest near his hometown of Afton, Wyoming on Feb. 14, 2002 and was forced to spend the night standed alone in the mountains enduring temperatures of 15 to 20 degrees below zero. Gardner was found by search and rescue on Feb. 15, 2002 in the Salt River drainage, about five miles southeast of the town of Smoot and was airlifted by helicopter to Star Valley Medical Center in Afton and treated for hypothermia and frostbite.

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