Terrace, B.C. – Members of Terrace Search and Rescue were back in Seven Sisters Provincial Park this week in their hunt for a missing American filmmaker.

 

Twenty-six-year-old Warren Sill went missing earlier this summer after travelling to the New Hazelton area in an attempt to get footage of the rare, white Kermode bear. His vehicle was found at the entrance to the Whiskey Creek Trail in early July. Despite an intense two-week search of the area from the ground and air, no trace of Sill was discovered.

 

On Tuesday, Swiftwater Rescue Technicians and a ground support member conducted a search of the Whiskey Creek Drainage with the hope of turning up any sign of Sill. Dwayne Sheppard with Terrace Search and Rescue says crews went 1.7 kilometres upstream from where the trail and the stream meet and 1.2 kilometres downstream. Sheppard says that particular area of the creek has several steep sidewalls which would make it virtually impossible to escape the canyon.

 

The crews scoured several plunge pools and debris strainers on the creek before a series of steep downstream pitches and waterfalls made it impossible to keep going. Sheppard says the two SRT Teams covered their areas with a 95 percent probability of detection. He says if Sill was in the creek bed area, they are nearly certain that they would have found him.

 

Terrace Search and Rescue says crews will return to search below a large waterfall along the creek when water levels drop.