It has been more than a week since six-year-old Darius Macdougall disappeared while on a camping trip with his family in southwestern Alberta, and still, search and rescue crews appear to have found no sign of him.

The Lethbridge, Alta., boy went missing on Sunday, Sept. 21, near Island Lake Campground, just south of the Crowsnest Pass, about 250 km south of Calgary.

In their latest update, searchers said that, based on a major statistical analysis involving the boy’s health, the terrain and the impact of weather and the amount of time they’ve spent looking for him, his estimated chances of survival are “less than five per cent.”

RCMP Cpl. Gina Slaney said Sunday that search tactics were also changing to reflect that.

On Monday, HALO Air Ambulance announced in an online post that

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