Minnesota winters are brutal, even if you have a warm house and a cozy bed to while away the cold nights. Which is why it’s remarkable鈥攐r maybe just crazy鈥攖hat a 17-year-old Boy Scout from the Duluth area voluntarily slept outside for 365 nights straight.
Perched most often seven feet up in a tree near his parents’ house, Rudy Hummel survived 76 subzero nights and multiple snowstorms to raise about $6,000 for Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity and the Hawk Ridge Bird Observatory. When not at home, Hummel would pitch a tent or crash on a hotel’s deck. According to , he slept outside in 30 different places.
Hummel’s mother reportedly checked on her son only once鈥攐n a night when temps reached 27 degrees below zero. “We had an agreement. If he started to shiver, he would come in,” his mother . “He never did.”
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