He said he poured water over his father's face to no avail.

"That was the point where I knew it was going to be really bad," Max Butler told The Standard. "He was just groaning and trying to wake up, but he couldn't."

The boys immediately put together a plan to save the men.

Max Butler and Sawyer jumped in a truck to drive toward Lima and get into cell phone range. They came upon other hunters and sent them to camp to help the other three boys.

At camp, the Cook boys and Gus Butler had already pulled the men into their tent, cleared their airways of vomit and shut off the propane heater.

Adam Cook said that took a lot of work.

"Teamwork really helped us," he said. "We would count to three and we would pull or lift on them."

The adult hunters who showed up helped clear out the back of a pickup truck and load the unconscious men, Adam Cook said. They drove toward Lima and were met by an ambulance that hauled the men to Dillon for medical treatment. They were later flown to Salt Lake City.

Adam Cook said throughout the ordeal, the boys would sometimes start to panic. They dealt with it by temporarily stepping away from the camp.