Nick Rivers was lowered 26 metres from a cliff to rescue a man who had fallen into the roaring Little Qualicum River in December 2020
Ken Neden says he’ll never forget a daring 2020 rescue by fellow Arrowsmith Search and Rescue member Nick Rivers — one that recently won him the Governor General’s Decoration for Bravery.
“The water was really, really raging down,” Neden said. “I’ve been doing this for nearly 50 years now and that was far and above the most dangerous, most intense rescue.”Neden was one of the people at the top end of the rope during the rescue, and said Rivers was the only person on the scene in December 2020 qualified to be sent down into the river gorge where the man had fallen in.
Rivers told the Times Colonist just after the rescue that the man had been in the frigid river for up to half an hour.
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