North Shore Rescue

• North Shore Rescue warn about danger to crews after slackline strung across two peaks

  'If we came in contact with that slackline it would have been catastrophic -- that's five people that would have been killed,' NSR search manager Mike Danks said Friday.

  Canada

  Apr 16
• B.C.’s search-and-rescue teams ‘pushed to their limits’ amid record callouts in pandemic year

  Data released Saturday showed the province's 79 teams were deployed 1,959 times between April 2020 and April 2021, a jump of 25 per cent compared to previous years. 

  Canada

  Apr 3
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• Missing skier and snowboarder located after spending night on Cypress

  Crews do not have a good idea where the two might be, as conditions were too dangerous to begin searching overnight.

  Canada

  Mar 21
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• Two hikers rescued after going out of bounds on Grouse Grind trail

  North Shore Rescue crews had another busy weekend saving two hikers overnight Sunday who had become stuck on Grouse Mountain after they wandered away from the trail.

  Canada

  Feb 15
• Search-and-rescue teams warn of hazardous conditions over Family Day weekend

  Search-and-rescue teams are warning that the combination of poor weather and dangerous snow conditions are a perfect recipe for disaster.

  Weather

  Feb 13
• Out-of-bounds snowboarders rescued off Mount Seymour

  "They left the ski area boundary, and that was their big mistake," North Shore Rescue search manager Greg Miller said.

  Canada

  Jan 30
• Tragic end to search for missing Ontario snowshoer on B.C.’s North Shore Mountains

  The woman in her 20s went missing Thursday afternoon in the St. Mark's Peak area of Cypress.

  Canada

  Jan 15
• North Shore Rescue accidentally finds lost hikers on first-ever night-vision test flight

  Thursday's rescue was the 146th NSR has conducted this year, setting a new all-time record for annual call outs.

  Tech

  Dec 24, 2020
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• ‘This will save lives’: North Shore Rescue gets green light for night-vision goggles

  "This is going to make calls safer for not only the responders, but also for the people that we're rescuing," said search manager Mike Danks.

  Canada

  Dec 11, 2020
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• Search crews bail out three underprepared students on North Vancouver’s Mt. Fromme

  According to search organizers, the group had left too late in the day and wasn't dressed for the conditions.

  Canada

  Nov 23, 2020