Tom Garner left the ambulance on his own power, wearing a hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses, with a blanket thrown over his shoulders. He stepped gingerly out of the ambulance and was helped into a wheelchair.

Asked how he was doing, he said in a strong voice, "Good!" Then he looked into the cameras of the news crews and said, "Hi, Ma." He was then taken into the hospital to be evaluated.

"Quite frankly, you can't describe it," said Tom's father, Gerald Garner. "There are no words to describe it. The emotions are just running wild. There have been millions of people here, and I've been hugging everybody."

At a press conference Wednesday night, Tom and Tamitha addressed the press while sitting in wheelchairs and holding hands.

"At first it was all tears, hugs and kisses (when I was reunited with my father). Then I saw him rear his fist back," Tom Garner said with a smile.

Law enforcement officials in Utah and Nevada had planned a few more searches in the high-country desert near the border, but acknowledged that efforts were winding down. An airplane and a snowmobile crew had been searching remote Iron County again on Wednesday.

Tamitha said the first thing she planned to do when she got home was eat her daughter's homemade macaroni and cheese. Her daughter Krystal, was en route to the hospital Wednesday to be reunited with her parents. Tamitha noted her daughter even received a speeding ticket on the way down, which Tamitha said she would gladly pay.

"This has definitely made me a believer in prayer, no matter who you pray to," Tom Garner said.

Many were stunned that they were found alive and well.

"After 10 days, they're alive!" said Lincoln County, Nev., Sheriff Kerry Lee, whose office headed up the search effort.

"It was right where searchers have been flying, right where the snowmobiles have been. We just didn't see them," Lee said.

Searchers had covered thousands of miles of rugged terrain seeking the Garners, who had been seen last on Jan. 26 buying gas at a Panaca, Nev., station. They told family members they were going out into the rural area to photograph wild horses.

"I never gave up," Gerald Garner said. "I know my boy is resourceful, intelligent. He's an Eagle Scout. I knew he could make the right decisions to benefit their wellbeing and, obviously, he did."

Air and ground searches had turned up nothing until late Wednesday afternoon. Family and friends also had done some searching on their own, but authorities discouraged them because of the danger.

"This morning we were just not feeling as optimistic as we had been," said Tom's sister-in-law, Ange Garner. "It's fabulous news."