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Out-of-bounds skiers rescued from gully
Lost men survived avalanche and cold night BRENT RICHTER brichter@nsnews.com
Two out-of-bounds skiers are lucky to be alive after spending a night in a treacherous, avalancheprone gully outside Cypress Mountain ski resort.
North Shore Rescue volunteers were called to rescue the two men in their early 40s on Sunday afternoon, after they placed a 911 call. “They had gone out of bounds around 11:30 a.m. on purpose. They ducked ropes … and they went down into the gully and they got into a point of no return. It was just so steep. And then they got caught in an avalanche,” said Doug Pope, search manager. The team joined Cypress Mountain ski patrol staff in hunting for the men and
North Shore Rescue volunteer Scott Campbell escorts a rescue subject to a waiting ambulance Monday. eventually spotted their tracks heading outside the resort boundaries. Contacting them via text message, Pope was able to coach the men into getting their GPS coordinates from their smartphones, allowing rescuers to zero in on them in Tony Baker Gully, northeast of the ski resort. Almost every year, there’s a
least one rescue in that spot and several people have died there, including the man the gully is named after. Finding them was only part of the challenge though. With a week of heavy snow in the mountains and warming temperatures, avalanche risk was
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Judge hands SkyTrain stabber four-year six-month sentence
JANE SEYD jseyd@nsnews.com
A former North Vancouver mother wept in the courtroom Monday as a man who stabbed her son to death was sentenced to spend less than two more years in jail. Outside the court, Barbara Stevenson said she was shocked and upset at the sentence. “I don’t think it’s enough. I really think it’s a slap in the
face,” she said. “I’m surprised they gave out such a low sentence for killing a person.” Stevenson and other North Vancouver family members were in Vancouver provincial court Monday morning as Judge Joseph Galati handed a sentence of four years and six months in jail to 23-yearold Jesse Evan Ali Sellam of Burnaby who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Stevenson’s son James Enright. Because Sellam has already
spent close to two years in custody, his remaining sentence will be about 22 months in prison. Enright, who grew up in North Vancouver, died after he was stabbed in the heart by Sellam on Feb. 15, 2015 after coming to the aid of a friend at the Edmonds SkyTrain station. Court heard that Enright did not know Sellam and was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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A North Shore Rescue volunteer crew prepare to touch down from a helicopter long line with two men who survived a night in Tony Baker Gully. PHOTOS MIKE WAKEFIELD
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