Two adults and four children were rescued on Tuesday, December 10 in a mountainous area in the state of Nevada after being reported missing since Sunday.
According to The Huffington Post, the family had survived temperatures below zero among other difficulties.
First reports say that James Glanto, 34, his girlfriend Christina McIntee, 25, and the four children, one aged 10, two aged four and one aged three, went out for a trip on their car last Sunday to a mountainous region in Nevada known as Seven Troughs. Since they didn't return to their home they were reported missing.
The Daily Mail Online reported on Monday that a search and rescue mission was set in motion to find the missing family alive, a mission that continued through Sunday night and was restarted yesterday morning in sub-zero temperatures which worried rescue teams who were afraid the cold could be fatal to the missing family.
Finally, the family was found alive yesterday by rescue teams.
The Huffington Post reported this morning that Paul Burke, search coordinator, told the media that the family managed to stay alive by staying together inside their car.
"They stayed together, that was the key. It's something you don't see in rescue cases. They did some unusual stuff, like heating up rocks, but staying together was the main thing," Burke said.
The family was taken to the General Pershing Hospital, where a group of 100 people expecting them broke into applause when they heard the family had survived.
James Glanton and his girlfriend, along with James' children and Christina's nephews, went out on Sunday to play with snow in Seven Troughs. When they were returning home their car overturned and they were not able to get it going again, and had to stay inside until they were rescued after two days of search efforts in which 200 people helped.
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