Family appeals for help to find missing Alaska man in northern B.C.

The family of Anthony Adevai, a 70-year-old Alaska man who went missing in B.C. nearly two weeks ago, is reaching out to Canadians and hoping for any information to help find him.

RCMP sayAdevai was last seen on Nov. 29 near Kinaskan Lake, along the Stewart-Cassiar Highwaysouth of DeaseLake, B.C. He was driving himself home to Alaska after visiting family and attending his brother's funeral in Oregon.

B.C. RCMPhave issued a missing person bulletin, and Adevai's family is using social media to spread the word about his disappearance.

Adevai's daughter, Tiffany Adevai, said her family is concerned that Adevaimay have been suffering from dementia, and they're offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to his safe return.

"That's in United States currency, which I hear is a little bit more in Canada," she said.

"This man is so loved by his familyand we miss him and we just want him back, no matter how that is, what shape or form."

Truck found abandoned

Tiffany Adevaisays she last spoke to her father when he called from the road, in Cache Creek, B.C., after leaving Oregon earlier that day. She said he was "feeling good" and had planned to continuedriving through the night.

Further up the road, Tiffanysays, a plow truck driver met her father near Iskut, B.C.,and later said Adevai had seemed "disoriented, disconnected, and that he seemed frightened."

Tiffany says her father'struck was found abandoned by the highway the next day. His suitcase, passport, insulin, and other belongings were inside.

"Basically, everything was left thereexcept for him and his wallet," she said.

Tiffany believes her father may have been picked up by another driver, but in a confused statedue tohis "severe medical issues and necessities."

Police describe Adevai as Caucasian, six feettall and 190 pounds, with glasses, grey hair and a full grey beard.