Eric LeMarque played on the NMU hockey team in the late '80s.
Monday, November 02, 2009 at 5:19 p.m.
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MARQUETTE -- A man with ties to the U.P. is in Marquette Monday to recount his harrowing tale of being stranded for eight days in the snowy Sierra Nevada Mountains.
Eric LeMarque played on the NMU hockey team in the late 1980s. He went on to play professionally and at the Olympics.
In his book, Crystal Clear, he describes the story of snowboarding and getting caught in a storm on Mammoth Mountain in 2004.
He lost his legs to frostbite because of his ordeal.
"The scariest part was after being into the river, swept under the ice, practically over a water fall, I was faced with a super humanly hour-long vertical climb up a sheer ice cliff," said LeMarque.
To hear more of Eric's story, he'll be speaking Monday night at 7:30 in the Great Lakes Room at NMU's University Center.
Tickets are free for NMU students and two dollars for the general public.
