Wife Optimistic Missing Husband Will Be Found Alive

The wife of an Idaho pilot who failed to return from a flight to
Lakeview  says the family hasn't given up hope he's still
alive.
    

 Tony Nicholls of Meridian dropped off his two stepsons in
Lakeview Thursday and was to return to Meridian that day because
his daughter was graduating from high school over the weekend.
 

    Amy Nicholls told the Idaho Statesman Tuesday that her 48-year-old husband is a marathon runner with a high pain tolerance and called him "the toughest man I've ever met in my life."

     She says she texted him during his return flight and his last
message said he had "cleared the mountains." She did not know
which mountains.

     The search for Nicholls continued Tuesday in southeastern Oregon
and northern Nevada and California.