Sanders, 23, spent six nights trapped on a glacier in the Swiss Alps and lived to tell about it. The Round Rock High graduate was hiking the sledding trails on Christmas Eve 1999 when a huge storm slammed into the side of the mountain near the famed Matterhorn. The lights of Zermatt, Switzerland, were about five miles away, but his frostbitten feet prevented him from making the hazardous trek. After the third day, search parties had given up hope of finding him alive in the 22-below-zero temperatures. On his birthday, the sixth day of the ordeal, a rescue helicopter appeared overhead. At the same time his mother was in a nearby town filling out the paperwork on a "missing person presumed dead."
