The 43-year-old hiker reported missing last weekend was found alive on Friday, according to a social media post from his sister. Squamish Search and Rescue told CTV News that Stanislav Volo came walking out of the woods onto Indian Arm Forest Service Road on his own. “I can’t even express how happy we are,” said Tyler Duncan, a search manager for Squamish SAR, in a Zoom interview Friday night. “The team is downstairs as we speak, rejoicing, but, at the end of it, Stas gets most of the credit. You know, he ended up walking out onto the road himself. It’s unbelievable, the story he must have.” Pieces of that story were included in his sister’s Instagram posts. “Stas survived with a broken heel, broken wrist, concussion, stuck on a cliff, eating twigs, wildflowers and bugs,” she wrote in one. A photo taken just after he was found showed an overjoyed Volo walking between the arms of two rescue staff, who appeared just as ecstatic. Volo was first reported missing on Aug. 30, one day after he was last seen at the summit of the Sea to Sky Gondola. He left behind a detailed plan to hike the Mount Habrich Loop but didn’t return home. Days of co-ordinated search turned up little sign of Volo, but a breakthrough came on Thursday morning, when his sister announced that emergency crews had received a 911 call from his cellphone. Squamish SAR said the 911 call played a major role in narrowing their search. “He is out there. We need to find him,” Ola Volo said on Wednesday. In her post about her brother being found, she said these have been the longest six days of her life, but she held onto hope every second. Both Duncan and the Sea to Sky RCMP described Volo’s injuries as “minor.” “Considering what he has been through, he is as healthy as we can possibly imagine he would be,” Duncan said. “Just the ability to be walking, at this point—let alone walking out of the woods and that terrain on your own—is miraculous. So, he’s doing really well.” The Squamish SAR manager described the terrain where Volo was lost as “unbelievably challenging.” He said the fact that Volo was able to make it to the forest service road where he was found is both an indication that crews were searching in the right place and a “quite impressive” feat. “Unfortunately, I know lots of previous searches that got to this point, where they were not good outcomes,” Duncan said. “So the fact that Stas is here with us still and able to go home to his family probably very quickly is just absolutely fantastic.”
