>> an alaskan bush pilot delivered the news to russel's father jim who was in the wilderness hunting and unreachable by phone. >> he said your son's dead. to i had to say, of course, which one? and russel and i mean, he didn't know a whole lot about anything other than he knew it was important to get me out of there. >> russel's brother, matt, was the last to know. he, too, had been out of cell phone range for several days while vacationing in british columbia. >> we drove across the border and my phone had a seizure and it started buzzing for every voice mail message and text message that had been sent and it was matt, call me. matt, call me. matt, call me. >> within days of his death, russel douglas' far-flung family reunited on whidbey island. >> we rallied around brenna. >> we're sleeping on the room. >> she stayed in her bedroom a lot. she definitely seemed to be sad.