It happened on the night of Jan. 6 when Chris Rose, his stepson and friend Brian Carlon adventured past the China Wall as snow was moving in.
"By 1 p.m. or so, that's about when we got stuck. We tried to dig out for the next nine hours," Rose told CBS13. "It was a point of no return. The longer we were there trying to dig out, the more snow was building up."