The parents of a University of British Columbia graduate who vanished in the mountains of Manning Park last fall have resumed the search for their son and say they aren’t giving up.
“The ultimate goal is to bring our son home. Jordan is an electrical engineer, he’s a very smart hands-on young man,” Jordan Naterer’s mother Josie told Global News.
“Jordan’s always mastered and overcome any challenge he’s had in life… we know our son and we know he can survive this.”
Naterer, 25, was last seen the Saturday before Thanksgiving in October 2020, leaving his Vancouver apartment. His black Honda Civic was found at the Frosty Mountain trailhead.
An official search was suspended in mid-October, but Naterer’s parents flew to B.C. from Newfoundland and hired a private company to continue scouring the park until December.
Josie told Global News her husband had returned to the park in February to set the groundwork for search efforts that resumed last month.
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Read more: ‘We as parents will never give up’: Private search underway for missing hiker in B.C.’s Manning Park
“We believe our son saw people coming down off the mountains wet, tired, there was a huge snowstorm up at the summit, and said ‘I’m not going to do that, I can come back another time or when the season is better.'”
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Josie said volunteers and donors had been extremely generous with their time and resources for the costly private search effort.
Small teams of volunteers continue to fan out and scour the Windy Joe, Frosty Mountain and Skyline trails, she said.
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