Missing snowboarder found by search crews
Rescuers in West Vancouver on Tuesday night reached a 33-year-old snowboarder who had gone missing Sunday at B.C.’s Cypress Mountain ski resort.
Crews reached Sebastien Boucher after he was spotted in a creek drainage waving at rescuers.
Greg Miller of the local North Shore Rescue agency said Boucher would be flown out of the area, but it could take about three hours before a helicopter arrived from Comox, B.C., to take him to hospital.
“They say he’s in remarkable shape for a guy that’s been out that long,” Miller said. “He’s cold, he’s hungry but physically otherwise he’s in good shape.”
Incredibly, Boucher had traversed kilometres of difficult terrain covered in waist deep snow that Miller likened to walking “on a pile of pickup sticks.”
“Where he was outside of what we call our primary search area, we had not even considered looking (outside the 15-square-kilometre area) until the helicopter flight saw the tracks,” Miller said.
Sebastien Boucher’s mother and stepfather, who had flown in from Ottawa, and a handful of his friends were waiting patiently in the ski resort’s lodge for more news.