'I won't give up': Tulı́t'a teen says he'll stop at nothing to find missing friend
"River's one of my closest friends," said Mcpherson, 19. "It's always me and River."
Clement was last seen around 5 a.m. Friday morning according to RCMP. The police service said clothing and a cell phone believed to belong to the teenager had been found in a boat drifting on the Mackenzie River that morning.
After four days, the police service said the search had become a recovery operation rather than a rescue.
It's information McPherson is still grappling with.
"I'm just so confused about it. Why was he down there, alone, like 5:30, 6 in the morning? Nothing makes sense to me," McPherson said from Délı̨nę, while checking that he'd packed everything for a flight back to Tulı́t'a on Tuesday afternoon.
He was cutting short his trip to the nearby N.W.T. community to go home and help.
McPherson said once his plane touches down, he'll do anything to find Clement – and he's going to try his hardest to bring him home safe.
Mayor calls for donations for search
"I won't give up until we find him," he said.
Doug Yallee, the mayor of Tulı́t'a, told CBC News the search for Clement continued on Tuesday. A search and rescue aircraft would have eyes in the sky, while community volunteers would continue to search from the ground and on the water.
He also asked that people send financial donations to help cover the cost of food and gas necessary for continuing the effort.
"All donations we can use for the community of Tulı́t'a here to locate this young person."
RCMP will continue to help with the search for River, the force said in its news release on Monday evening. Other departments have pulled back from the search or say they weren't mobilized at all.
A sergeant with the Canadian Ranger patrol group that had been involved in the search said their effort was called off on Sunday. But in a post on Facebook Clement's aunt, Lynda MacCauley, said that many rangers were still volunteering with the search on their own time.
A spokesperson for Canada's Department of National Defence said its Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) in Trenton had received a call from RCMP about the search and had offered to help. When JRCC followed up with police, however, it was told that its help wasn't needed anymore.
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