Searchers still looking for lost Canadian man
Published 5:35 pm Friday, May 13, 2011
BOISE, Idaho — The family of a Canadian man who’s been missing in the northeastern Nevada mountains since March 19 says authorities plan to begin a more intensive grid search Saturday if there’s still no sign of him.
Hunters found his wife weak but alive May 6, but there’s been no sign of 59-year-old Albert Chretien since he set out March 22 from the couple’s stuck van.
Elko County Sheriff Jim Pitts says, “We don’t want to give it up yet.”
Seventeen searchers on four-wheelers scoured the wilderness for Albert Chretien on Friday.
Rita Chretien remains hospitalized in good condition and “relatively good spirits.” The 56-year-old survived on trail mix, hard candy, fish oil and snow.
Her family released a statement Friday saying she hasn’t determined how and when she might tell her story.
