Two severely hypothermic Anchorage men were rescued Sunday afternoon from Portage Lake, where they were reported to have been in the water for 35 minutes after their kayaks flipped, the Alaska State Troopers said Sunday.
Troopers wrote in an online dispatch that at 1:08 p.m. Stephanie Hawkins, 25, reported to troopers that two kayaks had overturned in the glacial lake and "two (people) were floating in the water with life jackets, motionless, drifting in the lake."
Hawkins and two others pulled the men into a skiff and took them to shore.
Troopers found that Ronald Wray Stafford, 64, and Ryan Christopher Stafford, 37, had been in the water "for 35 minutes or more."
Troopers and the Girdwood Fire Department treated the men for severe hypothermia at the scene before the two were transferred to Providence Alaska Medical Center for additional treatment.