trip, the car became stuck on a snowy, muddy, lonely dirt trail. The two men went to work attempting to free the car, but were unsuccessful. They lit flares to try to attract attention — but apparently there was nobody around to see the flares. They started a fire, hoping someone would see the smoke during the day or the light at night. Nobody did.

Time passed, but nobody came to their rescue. They used an old towel to strain water from a ditch, and they melted snow for drinking. But with no food and only ditch water and snowmelt to drink, Szabo decided after 4 or 5 days to leave his friend and the site of the stranded vehicle and attempt to walk out to get help.

As luckwould have it, after 10 days in the desert, with nothing to eat and only his melted snow to drink, James Klemovich was found by military personnel who were conducting training in that part of the desert.

Lazlo Szabo was found dead a mile and a half away.

When contacted about the discovery of her husband, Joanne Klemovich mentioned that she started to worry when several days had passed without receiving a phone call from James. "I figured maybe they'd had an accident and they were stranded. I thought maybe they were in a mine shaft. All kinds of things were going through my head."

While Klemovich sat in his stranded vehicle, waiting for his friend Szabo to return with help, he kept a journal. He noted how much water he