Officials have identified the on the Cheakamus River in British Columbia on Friday as 19-year-old Peter Thompson. Thompson, of Canmore, Alberta, was paddling with friends when he went over an 18-foot waterfall and never reappeared. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a really straightforward waterfall and he had run it twice before the day before that,鈥 friend Chris McTaggart said. 鈥淚t was just a complete freak accident he hit a rock and missed the stroke to get his bow in the air and he basically just submerged parallel to the waterfall and disappeared.鈥 His paddle and lifejacket emerged downstream, but neither Thompson nor his boat were found. Thompson was the head coach for the Bow Valley Kayak Club and Alberta Whitewater Association.
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