BERLIN (AP) — The family of an American extreme sports enthusiast missing in the Swiss Alps since Saturday is holding out hope that he’s still alive.
Harrison Fast from Boulder, Colorado, was speed flying on the Jungfrau mountain in central Switzerland when the group he was with lost sight of him amid bad weather.
Swiss police say they called off the “active search” for 28-year-old Fast on Tuesday.
But Cassie Carothers, a cousin, says she and Fast’s mother have traveled to Switzerland to organize a private search.
Carothers says they’re using drones to fly over the dangerous terrain that includes a glacier with deep crevasses.
She said Wednesday the family is trying to be realistic about Fast’s fate while “holding out hope and wishing for a miracle that perhaps he made it down.”
