Roderick Clifton and Paula Lane were missing for a week in California's Sierra Nevada Mountains before Lane was found alive Wednesday in Alpine County, Calif. Clifton was later found dead.  A Nevada woman who went missing in the snow-covered Sierra Nevada Mountains for six days was found by her own brother while she was crawling along a road looking for help.  Paula Lane, 46, and her boyfriend, Roderick Clifton, 44, had been missing since Nov. 29.  Clifton died in the snow going for help after the two became stuck when they decided to pull off the highway and go off-roading in a remote region of Alpine County near Highway 88, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.  The two were coming from visiting Clifton’s relatives in Sacramento County and were headed back home to Gardnerville, Nev.  Alpine County authorities said Clifton wanted to test out his new Jeep Cherokee in the snow and became stuck in the mud a few miles down a dirt road on Thursday night.  The two did not have cell service and spent the night in the car. The next morning, Clifton decided to go for help, the Chronicle reported.  Lane begged him not to go.  Three days later, he had not returned, and Lane set off on her own in a last-ditch effort to be rescued.  She crawled past Clifton’s frozen dead body while trying to make it to a cross-country ski hut the two passed on the way in, the newspaper reported.  Meanwhile, the pair were reported missing by their families on Saturday.  Lane’s brother knew his sister went camping in the area and began searching the mountain roads in a front loader vehicle.  He found her crawling in the road on Wednesday at around 8:30 p.m., authorities said.  She was hospitalized and treated for hypothermia.  Authorities said Lane’s survival was remarkable given that they don’t think she had food or water.  Alpine Undersheriff Robert Levy told the Chronicle that wintertime adventurers should avoid getting into situations where they could become trapped.  "It is not hard to put together a vehicle emergency kit,” he told the paper. “I'll always tell people that wool blankets are a godsend. They'll keep you warm, they'll give you traction if you put them under the tires and you can cut them up as a bandage.  "When people panic, we know they don't make good decisions,” he said.
Authorities say Paula Lane crawled through the snow — and past her boyfriend's dead body — while looking for help on a remote mountainous road.