A French rescue official says the search for an Ottawa teenager who went missing in the French Alps on July 12 continues, though his team hasn’t received any new leads as to where the young man could be located.
Commander André-Vianney Espinasse, of the Gendarmerie de Haute Montagne (PGHM) Peloton in Chamonix, told CTV News on July 17 that the search for Yassin Jouali, 17, has been difficult.
“The problem is right now we haven’t received any new leads. The mountain is massive. It’s like trying to empty the sea with a spoon,” said Espinasse in French, whose unit specializes in mountain rescue missions in the Chamonix-Mont-Blanc region of France, a resort area near the junction of France, Switzerland, and Italy, where Jouali was last seen while on a mountain trail….