By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 12:15 EST, 7 December 2012 | UPDATED: 12:38 EST, 7 December 2012 The Nevada mother-of-two who spent six days stranded in the snow-filled Sierra Nevada mountains told her doctor that she survived by eating tomatoes and snow and huddling in a hollow tree for warmth at night. Paula Lane, 46, and her boyfriend Roderick Clifton, 44, were reported missing on November 29 when their car became stuck in a snowstorm as they drove from the home of Clifton's mother in Citrus Heights, Calif., to their own home in Gardnerville, Nev. Though Clifton died trying to reach help, Lane was discovered on Wednesday by her brother who tirelessly searched the woman and never gave up hope that they would bring her home alive.
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Paula Lane, 46, was discovered crawling through the snow on Wednesday after spending six days in the wilderness
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Her family said they had prepared Lane's 11-year-old twin sons for the worst
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Lane is being treated for first-degree frostbite and malnourishment
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Her boyfriend, 44-year-old Roderick Clifton, father to three daughters, died trying to seek help
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'She is mighty and she's a survivor,' Lane's sister said
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