I don't know if he wrote a book, but I worked at a convenience store with the subject of the following excerpt from the Austin Chronicle (ca 2000).
"Best Adventure Story: Matt Sanders
Sanders, 23, spent six nights trapped on a glacier in the Swiss Alps and lived to tell about it. The Round Rock High graduate was hiking the sledding trails on Christmas Eve 1999 when a huge storm slammed into the side of the mountain near the famed Matterhorn. The lights of Zermatt, Switzerland, were about five miles away, but his frostbitten feet prevented him from making the hazardous trek. After the third day, search parties had given up hope of finding him alive in the 22-below-zero temperatures. On his birthday, the sixth day of the ordeal, a rescue helicopter appeared overhead. At the same time his mother was in a nearby town filling out the paperwork on a "missing person presumed dead."
All he had to eat was a (chocolate/banana) power bar. Cool guy, I'm sorry we lost touch.
And this from the Austin American Statesman...
Young hiker's return marks end to ordeal
Author: Tracie Powell
Date: January 11, 2000 Publication: Austin American-Statesman (TX) Page Number: B3 ${ Word Count: 608
Matt Sanders was the last passenger to exit Southwest Airlines Flight 634, emerging from the airplane Monday in a borrowed wheelchair and looking just a little pale and a lot tired. Late last month, Sanders, a graduate of Round Rock High School, was trapped for days on the side of a Swiss mountain -- with only a sleeping bag, bottled water and chocolate bars to keep him alive through a fierce winter storm. The first thing Sanders, 23, did when he got off the plane was hug the 20 or so friends
Texas man recounts ordeal in Alps storm
Author: Pamela LeBlanc
Date: January 4, 2000 Publication: Austin American-Statesman (TX) Page Number: A1 ${ Word Count: 1157
With wind gusts topping 120 mph and temperatures sinking to 22 below zero, Matt Sanders knew he couldn't survive for long on the edge of a Swiss mountain. But the Round Rock High School graduate astonished rescuers who plucked him from an Alpine peak last Thursday. During one of the fiercest storms in Europe's history, Sanders, 23, spent six nights in a makeshift shelter with little more than a sleeping bag, a handful of Toblerone chocolate bars and bottled water.
