reporter: todd insists he s no hero. i was just out to help somebody. i ain t i don t want a title or anything. i just i was just out there to help. reporter: but for mark and chris, he was the miracle they hoped for. alex perez, abc news, chicago. he found them. way to go, todd. his wife is the one that said, get out there and find these guys. cowboy route out of central casting, wasn t he. he looked really cool. by the way, they didn t have cell phone service which is why they were penning these notes to their family. they were cold and hungry. otherwise they had done a good job of keeping themselves healthy for six days. the police say they were lucky, also, that their car had fuel. they turned on thank god they ragsed it every four hours. who would think you would be out there for six days. smart that they didn t leave it on. very smart. coming up, poking fun at dolly parton at the cmas. celebrating a superstar with a doll. that s coming up on the
heroes can come in any form, and for one couple in yellowstone national park, their hero roared in on a snowmobile. a couple spent six bone chilling days in the wilderness trapped in some heavy snow before a good samaritan set out on his rescue. abc s alex perez has the story. reporter: it was the wrong turn that nearly killed them. mark and chris rathke driving on to a snow packed highway near cody, wyoming, not knowing it had been closed. we never saw any road closed signs. we never saw any barricades. all of a sudden we went from a little fresh snow to about a foot, foot and a half drift. reporter: their car got stuck. temperatures had plummeted below zero and daylight turned to night. it was getting pretty cold. getting hard to stay warm. that was october 28th. their family reported them missing the following day. the 25-person team from the park county sheriff s department
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