The two adults and four children who went missing on Sunday after heading to Trinity Canyon in Nevada to play in the newly fallen snow were rescued today, CNN reported.
The group consisted of a man, James Glanton, 34, his two children, and his partner, Christina MacIntee, 25, with her niece and nephew as they got lost in the snowy mountains in their Jeep on Sunday, according to authorities, CNN reported.
The children ranged in ages from three to 10-years-old according to Sheila Reitz of Pershing County Sheriff's Office, CNN reported.
According to authorities the group was safe and located in an area called Trinity Canyon in northwest Nevada and were in good condition, according to CNN. They were found by a ground-search crew who spotted them through binoculars.
Pershing County Sheriff's Office said the rescue was only made possible because of search and rescue efforts of more than 200 people who searched 6,000 square miles during a continuing snowstorm, according to CNN.
The disappearance of the couple and the four children was one of the more dramatic events which occurred during the snowstorm that hit the nation last week and continues to do so this week, according to CNN.
Nevada authorities were able to receive pings off Glanton's cellphone during the initial phases of the search, leading them in a general direction of where the group could have been, but those pings stopped on Monday due to the bad service in the remote mountain areas, CNN reported.
