JACKSON HOLE, WYO – Rescuers are still trying to piece together the events that led to the deaths of three adventure-seekers in British Columbia but by most accounts it appears two men died while trying to save a woman from being swept over a treacherous waterfall.
After looking for the missing party for about a day, members of a search and rescue team found and recovered the bodies of Megan Scraper, Charles “Ryker” Gamble, and Alexey Lyakh in one of the pooled-up sections of water associated with Shannon Falls near a popular hiking spot outside of Squamish on the Sea-to-Sky Highway.
The names of Gamble and Lyakh might be familiar to Buckrail readers as two members of the High On Life SundayFundayz adventure crew from Canada that earned dubious acclaim after trespassing on Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone National Park two summers ago.
The group used social media to document their travels, often spiking the footage with high-octane stunts of outdoor daring. The hijinks occasionally landed the members in trouble.
On Tuesday, June 3, according to eyewitness testimony given rescue personnel and CBC, it appears Scraper fell in a pool of water above the third and most remote falls in the series of cascades at Shannon Falls. Scraper’s boyfriend, Lyakh, as well as Gamble, dove in to save her. All three were caught in the heavy current and swept over the falls.
