BRAD SILLS joined Whistler Search and Rescue Society in 1976 and has proudly served as a team member and on the executive board of the organization for fifty years. He first received certification as a SAR manager in 1992. Since that time, he has demonstrated leadership on numerous large-scale searches and technical rescues, which led to his certification in 2017 as one of only twelve Level 2 SAR managers in British Columbia. He was awarded the Whistler Citizen of the Year Award in 2012 and the provincial SAR Volunteer of the Year Award in 2017. He was the author of the BCSARA Helicopter Operations Training Program and the past chairperson of the BCSARA Air Support Committee. He is currently a director of the Air Rescue Association of Canada. Echoes on the Wind: Fifty Years of Search and Rescue in British Columbia’s Coast Mountains (Harbour) is his first book.