An exhaustive week-long seek for a person and his canine who went lacking within the Whistler space has been suspended.
Robert McKean, 80, was reported lacking on Oct. 9 from Whistler’s Alpine Meadows neighbourhood, and was final seen walking his canine Lexi.
A seven-day effort involving 300 search and rescue personnel from 21 search groups put in 2,600 hours in search of any signal of McKean. Those dozens of volunteers have been helped by RCMP officers, Whistler and Garibaldi firefighters and others from the group.
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Searchers on the bottom, utilizing dogs, helicopters, drones and steep-terrain rope groups have been joined by folks making enquiries within the neighbourhood, all to no avail. At 1 p.m. Sunday, the choice was made to droop the search.
“The RCMP have been in close contact with Mr. McKean’s family who wanted to express their gratitude to all involved in the search, including all of the SAR members from across the province, Whistler Fire Rescue Service, Garibaldi Fire, and all of the community members who have searched and recorded their tracks in the effort to locate Mr. McKean and his dog, Lexi,” mentioned Staff Sgt. Sascha Banks in an announcement.
Police wish to converse to anybody who noticed McKean and Lexi on Monday, Oct. 9, and are asking the general public to stay vigilant if they’re within the Alpine Meadows space, a couple of minutes north of Whistler’s city centre.
McKean was final seen sporting blue measurement 7 New Balance trainers, blue denims, a inexperienced jacket over a blue Canucks jersey and a tan ballcap with blue rim. Lexi was on a blue and white checkered leash hooked up to a blue harness.
Whistler RCMP are nonetheless investigating, mentioned Banks, and additional searches are deliberate to search out McKean.
