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July 29, 1992 52 pages

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REVELLERS MICHELLE (in red) and Prima (in white at right) fim&o down at the Caribbean Days
Cultural Festival in Waterfront Park on Sunday. This year's event jammed the North Vancouver City
location with arts and crafts, several steel bands and lots of good foad for everyone.

Six-day delay in reporting man missing in Lions wilderness area

A SYX-day delay between the time a hiker disappeared
while in a local wilderness area and the time he was actu-
ally reported as being missing has seriously hampered
search and rescue efforts to find the man.

Squamish RCMP have suhse-
guently called off the search and
rescue teams thar combed the area
around The Lions and Unneces-
sary Mountain near Lions Bay tor
the past thiee days.

Jiri Kristl, 38, of Burnaby was
last seen by his hiking companions

By Michael Becker
News Reporter

on Sunday, July 19, at about 2:30
p.m. at the foot of the west Lion
peak. The location had been the

Pant

destination of the day hike.

Krist] had lagged behind during
the hike in, and as the three
others he was with biked cut, they
upparently assumed that he was
following behind them.

The eroup made it to the
Cypress Bowl parking lot at about
$:30 p.m. and then waited there
for two hours for Krist! to show
up before finally leaving.

But it was not und! the after-
noon of Saturday, July 25, that
Lions Bay Search and Rescue and

the North Shore Rescue Feam
were called out to search the
wilderness area for Kristl.

Suid Squamish RCMP Set. Rod
Derouin, "We have no idea why
the members of the group would
wait six days before reporting the
incident."*

Added Derouin, “They main-
tained they made queries with the
Coguitlam and Burnaby (RCMP)
detachments, but nothing was
brought to the attention of the
proper authority.

“It was @ case of one person
thinking somebody else had
notified and another person think-
ing someone else had done some-
thing — it was very poorly handl-
ed.”

The police are now attempting
to determine if Krist] may have
swalked out."’

Kristh was last’ seen wearing a
blue T-shirt and = dark-colored
shorts. He was carrying a small

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