MEWS photo Michsel Becker

"GERRY BREWER, Karl Winter and Dave Brewer, left to right, joined the North Shore Rescue Team 30 years ago and remain active in the voiunteer search and rescue organization. :

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agement side of the team operation. -.“Let’s face it, I don’t travel as fast as . some of the other people.” . :.’ ‘He is also SAR (search and res- :/cue) coordinator for the province as a volunteer... °~ 7 - “People ask.you often, ‘Why do you do this?’ When [ do talks for the . Kinsmen or the Lions, I think of all

° the’ wonderful things they do. I'm . _just doing my part for the communi- _

* “In terms of choosing this activi- > “ty Tcan sum it up this way: there was -@ letter we received from a couple that. we had rescued. Some people have. the ability to string words together that tear at your heart and also give you-a great big pat on the

. back, That letter to my mind was -

telling me, that hey, I'm doing the

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_North Vancouver ; City Coun. Barbara Sharp chairs the North and West Vancouver emergency excct- tive committee. The North Shore

“Rescue Team falls’ under the com-

mittee’s mandate. Said Sharp, “I think it’s wonder-

ful that it’s lasted for 30 years but

I’m not surprised. Anybody who has

spent any amount of time around:

any of these people can totally understand why. it’s held together. They just work lize a family.”

Thirty.years ago NSRT founding,

member ‘Karl Winter was on the

“executive of’ Mountain - Rescue

Group in Vancouver. . “There: were. members from all over the world and we could never function well as a team. On call-outs there were total screw-ups,” he said. ~ Winter grew up in Bavaria and as

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a youth was a member of a mountain rescue team. He participated in his first mountain rescue “at the tender ageof 15 yearsold” - |

Forty-five years later he still sticks with it.

lronically his most memorable life-saving -incident with North Shore Rescue Team members occurred in Austria. He was touring the Alps with five members of the team in 1973. Winter and a fellow team. member were Dachstein Mecuntain.

A tourist had fallen into a glacier crevasse. Luckily Winter had a rope

with him. “There: was this guy ina -

crevasse filled with water and he was drowning. We quickly tied the ice axe to the rope and Jowered it down. It happened to be a honeymoon cou- ple walking across this glacier. Needless to say if we didn’t have the rope this man would have drowned within two to three minutes.”

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