North Shore Rescue celebrates 50 years
A half century of dedication to finding stranded hikers, skiers, and snowboarders
Since North Shore Rescue was formed there have been 2,500 search operations with volunteers giving 200,000 hours of effort.
Many of the men and women that give up their free time to rescue stranded hikers, skiers, and snowboarders are second generation members of the team that first formed in 1965.
Team leader Mike Danks joined as soon as he was 19 years old, following in his father's footsteps.
"He always took me out to training and it was always a big part of my life," Danks told CBC host Gloria Macarenko.
Danks, himself a father of three children, was unexpectedly thrust into taking over the leadership of the organization after former leader and friend Tim Jones passed away suddenly in January 2014.
North Shore Rescue — which has a strict policy of not charging people for the cost of their rescue — is currently campaigning to raise $6 million in donations to the Tim Jones Legacy Fund.
It was the late Jones' goal to achieve stable funding for search and rescue in B.C.
In the video above Mike Danks talks to Gloria Macarenko about the team and its goals for the future.