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Posted: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:59:02 GMT

Sophie Dowsley, 34, has not been seen in ten days. Picture: Facebook

CANADIAN search teams have found the body of a man beneath a landmark waterfall as they scour the site for a missing couple including Melbourne woman Sophie Dowsley.

Local media are reporting search and rescue dive teams have recovered a body believed to be that of Greg Tiffin, 44, who went missing 11 days ago after setting out on a hiking trip to Statlu Lake, three hours east of Vancouver.

Sophie Dowsley, 34, of Melbourne and her Canadian boyfriend, Tiffin, are believed to have slipped and fallen from the walls of a canyon overlooking a waterfall with a long history of fatalities.

The pair have not been seen since July 8.

The body of a man, believed to be Greg Tiffin, 44, has been recovered. Picture: Facebook

The body of a man, believed to be Greg Tiffin, 44, has been recovered. Picture: FacebookSource:Supplied

Search teams are continuing to scour the area for any sign of Ms Dowsley.

“All search resources remain engaged as we continue to look for the missing woman,” Corporal Mike Rail said in a news release. “RCMP remain in close contact with the victim’s and missing woman’s families.”

Her father, Peter Dowsley, who has flown to Canada to help search for her, told CTV: “It’s the worst possible nightmare that you could imagine. I couldn’t dream of anything worse.”

Long-time friends of Mr Tiffin last night began posting tributes to him on Facebook

“He will be greatly missed as a beloved son, brother, uncle and as my friend,” wrote Leigh-Anne Larsen in a post.

Search crews located the couple’s SUV, found Ms Dowsley’s sunglasses near the waterfall where they disappeared and recovered some of Mr Tiffin’s personal items in the water below, CTV reported.

Local mountain rescue official Neil Brewer called the location “a waterfall with a history of fatalities.”

“We have not been to that location for close to 20 years, but 20 years ago, we went there three times, three consecutive years, for exactly the same scenario and a fatality each time,” Mr Brewer, of Kent Harrison Search and Rescue, told CTV.

“They’ve gone to a very dangerous place and they haven’t come out,” Mr Dowsley said. “The terrain is just absolutely stunningly beautiful and rugged and unforgiving. Obviously, the only people that can be in there are trained professionals.”

“We just hope that they’re alive. We think in our heart of hearts that they might be. We just need to know,” he said.

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