It could have been too late

And taking the risk did pay off. Jennifer was revived and Kourtney was out of harm’s way. The officers were just in time to save them. According to Officer Muldoon, if it took them just a few minutes longer to find the girls, one or both of them could have died.

It wasn’t over for the girls

But the girls’ ordeal wasn’t over so soon. They needed months to recover from the frostbite with strenuous and sometimes painful physical therapy. Miraculously, none of the girls ever lost any of their fingers or toes from the freezing cold.