Ring Lost During Proposal Found on Michigan Ski Hill (Full Transcript)

[00:00:09] Speaker 1: Trevor Van Camp planned to capture his proposal to his longtime girlfriend, Danielle Jenkins, on Skybridge, Michigan, at Boyne Mountain Resort.

[00:00:17] Speaker 2: I told her, I said, I'm going to have the couple behind us take a picture. So I went and told them, and I whispered into the lady's ear, I said, I'm going to propose. I'm shaking because I'm scared of heights, and I'm afraid she's going to say no.

[00:00:28] Speaker 1: Just a domino effect of things, really. The engagement ring slipped out of his fingers, fell through the bridge, and dropped more than 100 feet onto a snow-covered ski hill.

[00:00:37] Speaker 2: I didn't even get to see the ring.

[00:00:39] Speaker 1: The couple alerted the resort's staff, who used metal detectors to search for the ring. But after a couple of hours of searching, it wasn't found.

[00:00:47] Speaker 2: We kind of gave up and thought it was a lost cause at that point.

[00:00:51] Speaker 1: But resort worker Pat Harper vowed to keep searching with a metal detector.

[00:00:55] Speaker 3: I swung over one of the footprints. It toned. I kind of dug some of the dirt up, scooped it back with a little bit of snow away with my hand, and then the edge of the ring stuck out. And I kind of sat there for a minute, and I was like, there's no way you just found that.

[00:01:10] Speaker 2: It was awesome. I can't thank Boyne enough, or Pat himself enough, for doing that for us. It was a big story. It was something crazy to tell, and now it's our story to tell.

[00:01:19] Speaker 1: The couple told CNN affiliate WXYZ they want to have their wedding at the resort in 2027.