Mother of Canadian missing in Peru not giving up after searchers come up empty
MONTREAL — A Montreal mother whose son is missing in Peru said she won’t give up until he’s found, even though an elite Israeli search-and-rescue team she hired has failed to turn up any trace.
Alisa Clamen hired Magnus International Search and Rescue in November to search the rugged Peruvian terrain for any hints of her son Jesse Galganov, who disappeared in September while on a backpacking trip.
She said that after 35 days of unsuccessfully combing over every inch of the territory within several kilometres of her son’s last known wheareabouts, the search-and-rescue team believes foul play was involved.
“If he had fallen into the water or off a cliff they would have found him, had he been there undisturbed,” she said in a phone interview.