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NEWS photo Neil Lucente

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Hiker stumbles home
after 10-day ordeal

A VANCOUVER man miraculous

y escaped with his life

after a trip up Mount Seymour for some cold-weather
camping turned info a desperate hike through a wintry hell.

The 32-year-old hiker, clad only
in a jogging suit, runners and
socks, stumbled out of the bush
just after 3 a.m. Tuesday after
wandering aimlessly without food
for 10 days.

With few local friends and no
family, David Wayne Deveau, was
missed by no one when he failed to
return from the camping trip.

An exhausted Deveau knocked

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en the doar of a Deep Cove home
on Badger Road and was taken to
Lions Gate Hospital suffering
from hypothermia, frostbite to his
fingers and toes and malnutrition.

The Vancouver man went camp-
ing on the mountain by bimself
Feb. 27, went for a hike and lost
his way back to the campsite.

Deveau remains in satisfactory
condition at LGH.

Cypress skier foun

imately 4 a.m.

NORTH SHORE Rescue Team (NSRT) members battled
through abysmal weather and treacherous terrain in a
successful search Tuesday for missing Vancouver skier
24-year-old Geoffrey Wesley Dyer.

Dyer was located and winched
aboard a 442 Squad armed forces
Labrador helicopter at 2:20 p.m.
‘Tuesday and transferred to a
Vancouver hospital, suffering
head and foot injuries.

The skier was reported missing
to the NSRT midnight after he
failed to show up for work Mon-

day afternoon. West Vancouver
Police said he had been fast seen
skiing on Mount Strachan after
riding the north slope chairlift of
the Cypress Bowl ski area.

A search party of 35 combed
the Strachan Creek area Tuesday
morning after voice contact had
been made with Dyer at approx-

But searchers had lost that
contact by 10:30 a.m.

The rescue bid was made allt
the more difficult by heavy snow,
high winds and poor visibility.
The area searched, southeast of
Mount Strachan, is steep and

carved out by ravines.

NSRT searchmaster Allan
Danks said a fresh eight-inch
snowfall on top of icy hard-pack
snow made for extremely haz-
ardous avalanche conditions.