Ryan Shtuka’s mother ready to brave the snow again to search for her son
SUN PEAKS, B.C. — It’s been nearly nine months since Ryan Shtuka was last seen leaving a house party in Sun Peaks.
After that, no one has seen or heard from him, but Ryan’s parents Heather and Scott haven’t given up the search. Heather has returned to Sun Peaks for the weekend, when more than a dozen volunteers are expected to once again scour the area for any trace of Ryan.
The family was ostensibly living in the resort town during the summer, but this weekend searchers are expecting to once again brave the snow.
“We’re in the village right now and I’m looking out in the parking lot of the Grand Hotel, and I can just see it piled up,” Heather says. “I look out my window and there is quite a bit of snow (on the ground). It feels like when we came, probably towards March, April — that amount of snow.