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Mel Basanez, left, and Bill Landon, look at a map of the northeastern Nevada wilderness on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Mountain City, Nev. Efforts to find 59-year-old Albert Chretien were suspended Tuesday by rain, low clouds and flood warnings in a remote corner of Elko County, Nev., where Chretien and his wife became stranded along a muddy road on a trip to Las Vegas. Rita Chretien continues to recover after being rescued Friday by a group of hunters. The couple from Penticton, British Columbia, is believed to have turned off a highway and onto a northeastern Nevada mountain road looking for a shortcut to Jackpot, Nev., a stop on their way to a Las Vegas trade show. When their van became stuck in the mud, Albert Chretien set out on his own with a GPS, hoping to walk more than 20 miles to the town of Mountain City. He never returned. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff) The Associated Press Mel Basanez, left, and Bill Landon, look at a map of the northeastern Nevada wilderness on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Mountain City, Nev. Efforts to find 59-year-old Albert Chretien were suspended Tuesday by rain, low clouds and flood warnings in a remote corner of Elko County, Nev., where Chretien and his wife became stranded along a muddy road on a trip to Las Vegas. Rita Chretien continues to recover after being rescued Friday by a group of hunters. The couple from Penticton, British Columbia, is believed to have turned off a highway and onto a northeastern Nevada mountain road looking for a shortcut to Jackpot, Nev., a stop on their way to a Las Vegas trade show. When their van became stuck in the mud, Albert Chretien set out on his own with a GPS, hoping to walk more than 20 miles to the town of Mountain City. He never returned. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff) The Associated Press Mel Basanez, left, and Bill Landon, stand outside their homes in Mountain City, Nev. on Tuesday, May 10, 2011. Efforts to find 59-year-old Albert Chretien were suspended Tuesday by rain, low clouds and flood warnings in a remote corner of Elko County, Nev., where Chretien and his wife became stranded along a muddy road on a trip to Las Vegas. Rita Chretien continues to recover after being rescued Friday by a group of hunters. The couple from Penticton, British Columbia, is believed to have turned off a highway and onto a northeastern Nevada mountain road looking for a shortcut to Jackpot, Nev., a stop on their way to a Las Vegas trade show. When their van became stuck in the mud, Albert Chretien set out on his own with a GPS, hoping to walk more than 20 miles to the town of Mountain City. He never returned. (AP Photo/Brian Skoloff) The Associated PressMOUNTAIN CITY, Nev. (AP) — A dispatcher notified that a woman had spent seven weeks in the Nevada wilderness alone in a van expressed shock and disbelief that she survived.A clearly incredulous Elko County law enforcement dispatcher asked, "She's been in it for a month?" when hunters called after finding 56-year-old Rita Chretien last Friday afternoon.The hunters had just ridden ATVs nine miles over snow and mud to a ranch house to find a phone. They weren't optimistic about the survival of Chretien's husband, who left the van March 22 and disappeared.The 911 tape provides a glimpse into Chretien's rescue and the inhospitable conditions where she was stranded for 48 days.She's now back in Canada, recovering in a hospital. Searchers resumed the hunt for her husband Wednesday.
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