Search to continue
for missing hikerThe 19-year-old man reported
he was on a narrow Koolau ridge
A search was to resume this morning for a 19-year-old man who has been missing since Monday when he went hiking alone in the Koolau mountains.
Police said Daniel Levey was last heard from about 6 p.m. Monday, when he called his family to tell them he was hiking down the Lanipo Trail mauka of Maunalani Heights.
"He said he was on a narrow ridge trail, and it was very steep on both sides," said his mother, Joyce Levey.
"He couldn't really tell where he was," she said.
His family called police after he failed to return.
Honolulu Fire Department rescue personnel searched on foot and by air from 9:15 p.m. Monday to 1 a.m. yesterday, officials said.
The search continued at daylight yesterday and was suspended at 6 p.m. Rescue crews from the HFD, the Honolulu Police Department and the state Department of Land and Natural Resources searched from Kuliouou Valley to the Nuuanu Pali with helicopters, and on foot in Palolo Valley and along Mauumae and Waahila ridges.
Levey, a 2001 Punahou graduate who attends the University of Oregon, hikes alone, his mother said.
"This summer, he has gone on two or three hikes a week," she said.
Daniel Levey often calls home to describe the scenic views he sees while hiking, she added.
When he called on Monday, he said that "it was cloudy and foggy, and a lot of mist" had blocked his view.
He tried to take some pictures, but couldn't get very good shots, she said.
Exactly 10 years ago, on July 22, 1993, Levey was in a car collision that left him hospitalized for two weeks, his mother said. She hopes he'll survive this, too.
"Maybe July 22 is just not his day," Joyce Levey said. "But he's always been a fighter.
"Right now, we really don't know anything, and it scares us," she said.
Levey is described as 5 foot 3, about 130 pounds with a slim build. He was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, tan pants and white athletic shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to call Investigator Mary Aragones at 529-3064 or CrimeStoppers at 955-8300.