How One Family’s Tragedy Spawned A Life-Saving Rescue Squad

TRUCKEE (CBS13) — Over the past four decades, volunteers with Tahoe Nordic Search and Rescue have rescued hundreds of people lost in the Sierra backcountry, and it all began with the search for a 12-year-old boy who wasn’t discovered in time.
Lance Sevison became lost in a blizzard on the back side of Northstar-at-Tahoe in 1974 at a time when there was no organized search and rescue team available to try to find him.
“We really didn’t have a clear picture on how to search