读者文摘2019年05月

Kindle Edition, 2019 © The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. 唯一公众号 悦读汇书苑 其他公众号都是盗我们公众号资源 DEAR READER : Meeting Our Hero Bruce Kelley, | 312 words Matt Cohen’s first thought out of the car was, Why would I want to be outside the car? Yet he and his buddy had planned to walk 1.3 miles up Camelback Mountain, just as every hiker visiting Phoenix does. So up the trail they started. Right away, everything felt off. Matt and his friend are young, and proven backpackers. But every two or three steps, they had to stop to drink. They were 45 minutes in, now barely moving, and their eight quarts of water were almost gone. “Time just slowed.” From around a bend came a lone hiker bouncing down the trail with a knapsack on his back. “Are you guys OK?” he asked. “Yeah,” Matt said, lying. The man searched Matt’s eyes. “You look like you’re about to pass out.” Matt stared back at him, his dehydrated brain barely working. I know that face, he thought. Amazingly, he did. Matt had seen a video about the guy right at his desk—at Reader’s Digest . Matt is our associate photo editor, and he had recently searched for a picture of a man devoted to sa......