A northern Nevada family of six that had been missing for two days, including two parents and four children, were found today alive and "in pretty good shape," ABC News reports.
The missing family included James Glanton, 34, Christina MacIntee, 25, their two children aged 3 and 4, and a niece and nephew, 10 and 4.
The family had gone out for a trip to play in the snow on Sunday with the four children when something went wrong with their vehicle. They were discovered two days later along I-80 today on Nov. 10 by a crew of rescue workers after an extensive search in the rugged terrain of the Seven Troughs Mountain Range.
Search-and-rescue efforts began soon after did not return home on Sunday night, and after monitoring the region on food and by helicopter, rescue crew members got a cell phone ping from the mother's mobile early Monday morning at around 1 a.m., which they used to try and locate the family.
Around 200 people were involved in the search and covered around 700 miles of terrain, The Associated Press and RGJ reports, and crew members used footprints and Jeep tracks to finally find the family and their flipped vehicle.
The family had not planned on staying overnight and were not equipped to deal with the freezing, below-zero conditions. They had huddled together for warmth in a canyon, and according to Pershing County Undersheriff Thomas Bjerke, they are now safe and "in good shape," currently being checked out at a local hospital.
"They stayed together and that was the key that allowed them to live through this experience. You don't see that that often in search and rescue," Paul Burke, search-and-rescue coordinator for the state, told The Associated Press. "They did some pretty unusual things, heating up rocks and things. Staying together, that was a big deal."
