. >> reporter: including a 17-year-old boy named michael sclawy-adelman. so he had a goal. >> certainly. >> he wanted to be an eagle. >> reporter: which is a hard thing to do. but because of what happened to michael on his way to eagle scouting's highest rank achieved by only a very few. how close was he. >> pretty close. >> reporter: because he never made it and because of what went wrong his parents are now challenging that which the scouts earned through decades of providing life lessons some of whom famous now call scouting one of the best parts of their lives they are challenging the trustworthiness of scouting itself. >> it just came down to us trusting in the boy scouts. >> reporter: so you always trust in the boy scouts. >> oh sure. >> reporter: a trust they now say was fatally misplaced. what do you remember? >> i dropped him off. >> reporter: michael's last hike was scheduled as a 20-miler through the big cypress national preserve. it hit a high of 92. michael was his parents say in fit physical condition and determined to do that hike. >> i spoke

. >> reporter: including a 17-year-old boy named michael sclawy-adelman who first went into scoutingarents say michael was in fit physical condition and determined to do that hike. >> i spoke to him on the phone while they were on their way to the church to be dropped off. and the last thing he said was, i love you. >> reporter: the hikers set off at approximately 9:00 that morning. three boys, led by scoutmasters howard crompton and andrew schmidt, who noticed the heat was getting to the boys at about 1:00 when the hike was half completed. they weren't eating much because they were extremely hot, crompton is quoted as telling police. in his own handwriting he described the ordeal that began at mile 15. "mike began to seem dizzy. we had him sit down to rest and drink water. after about 20 minutes, mike got worse. he seemed to be choking. i turn him on his side. he vomited. i cleared his mouth. he stopped breathing." an hour and a half after stopping the hike, he placed a call on his cell phone. >> 911. what is the address of your emergency? >> reporter: the florida trail. we're hikin