Missing Snowboarder Found Alive After 4 Days Lost on Mt. Seymour

James William Martin went snowboarding at Mt. Seymour on Sunday and had not been seen since. Word just came over the radio that he has been found alive and is being long lined to safety using the Helicopter Flight Rescue System (HFRS).

Read more on CTV

Snowboarder Missing on Mt. Seymour

Search continues today for missing Ontario snowboarder on Mt. Seymour. Read the Canadian Press article

Lynn Valley Teen Injured in Canyon Fall

Teenage girl rescued, in critical condition after fall in Lynn Canyon. See the article from the North Shore Outlook

North Shore Rescue on Twitter

In our ongoing efforts to keep North Shore Rescue supporters up to date with our team's activity, we have setup a Twitter account at: http://twitter.com/NSRescue

Snowboarder Rescued from Mt. Seymour

18-year-old snowboarder Nate Outerbridge spent 8 hours in suicide gully on Mt. Seymour after getting disoriented in the heavy fog. He was seperated from his group and ended up out of bounds. NSR rescuers walked Nate to safety at approximately 1am.

See the video summary on the CTV web site.

The CTC Web site identifies Nate as a snowmobiler when in fact he was snowboarding, not snowmobiling.

Skiers Found! 3 for the Price of 2

I have just arrived home from Mt. Seymour after a full day of searching for 2 lost skiers. I received the call this morning after North Shore Rescue made cell phone contact with them near Theta Lake in the North Shore Mountains of Vancouver.

70cm of heavy white snow had fallen in the last few days and we went to go and find them on foot. We trucked through the heavy snow as fast as we could, knowing that a young couple had spent the previous night, cold and wet in the deep snow. We travelled to the target area for the people in need of rescue, as indentified by the helicopter team earlier in the day.

On the way, we ran into a disoriented skier that was also in need of help, stuck in the waist deep snow, trying to climb to an imaginary safety uphill.

All afternoon and into evening we trudged through the deep snow, and finally we ran into the young couple that had spent a harrowing night in the dark and wet on Mt. Seymour. They told us how they experienced an avalanche that buried them to their necks that they were able to dig out of and call for rescue.

They knew that they are lucky to be alive on this Christmas evening. After a long and strenious hike out of the North Shore wilderness, everybody is safe and sound and back with their friends and family.

All of the people involved in the rescue gave up their Christmas Day to help and were able to deliver 3 people home safely to their families, which is the best Christmas present that anybody could ask for.

Please enjoy this holiday season in the mountains but be safe, as avalanche danger is high with all of the snow that we have received in the last week.

CTV is covering the story: BC Couple Lucky to Be Alive After Avalanche Drama

Contact Made With 2 Lost Skiers Near Theta Lake

Contact has been made with 2 lost skiers near Theta Lake on Mt. Seymour in North Vancouver.

News Articles:
Canadian Press
Vancouver Sun
News 1130

In January 2007, there was a large scale rescue on Mt. Seymour near Theta Lake. Read the first hand account on the Theta Lake Task blog post.

Snowshoers Spend Night on Cypress

Two snowshoers are lucky to be alive this week after one of them fell 50 metres down a slope during a nighttime outing, and the other became trapped trying to rescue him.

Read the story by James Weldon of the North Shore News: Cypress snowshoers spend night in cold after scary fall

Boy Scout Rescued from Mt. Seymour

A scout troop out for a snowshoe trip in Mount Seymour Provincial Park got a first-hand look at backcountry rescue techniques Saturday morning. See the story in the Northshore Outlook: Injured Boy Scout rescued by helicopter from Mt. Seymour

Hiker Spends Cold Night on Hollyburn Mountain

A 41 year old Delta man is lucky to be alive after spending the night lost in the dark on Hollyburn Mountain with only light clothing to keep him warm.

See the article in the North Shore News: Hiker Spends Cold Night on Hollyburn Mountain

Hollyburn Mountain Rescue

Big rescue this past weekend on Hollyburn Mountain... more details to come!

I wanted to give a big shout out to two amazing sponsors -

One to Ryan Bosa from Embassy Development Corp. who donated $2000.

Thank you Ryan!!










I wanted to also thank Ryders aka Bugaboos Eyewear who are our Official Supplier of Eyewear to North Shore Rescue.

http://www.bugaboos.com/