• High grade gold including 44.39 g/t (1.56 ounces/ton), 39.5 g/t (1.39 ounces/ton) and 20.6 g/t (0.72 ounces/ton) across 0.5m intersected in wide shear zones

• Open along strike and at depth

• Phase 1 5000 metre diamond drill program underway

• Phase II drill program slated for early 2010

December 3, 2009 Vancouver, B.C. Pacific North West Capital Corp. (PFN) (TSX: PFN; OTCBB: PAWEF; Frankfurt: P7J) and Alto Ventures Ltd. (ATV: TSX-V are pleased to announce high-grade gold results from the first five diamond drill holes completed at the DAC Deposit on the Destiny Gold Project, Quebec. High grade quartz veins including 44.39 g/t gold (1.56 oz./t), 39.5 g/t gold (1.39 oz./t) and 20.6 g/t gold (0.72 oz./t) across 0.5m were intersected. These veins occur within wide shear-related alteration zones which themselves are gold bearing. Subject to final results of the current drill program, Pacific North West Capital plans to begin Phase II drilling in early 2010.

A third phase of drilling is slated for Spring/Summer 2010 and its size will be dependent on the results found in Phases I & II. The objective of the above mentioned program is to expand the current NI 43-101 resources on the project.

These first five holes are part of a 5,000m, 14 hole drill program designed to expand the known resources at the DAC zone through infill and step-out drilling. 

The property is located approximately 75 km north of Val d'Or in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region, Quebec. The geological environment at Destiny is similar to the main Val d'Or belt, one of the major mining centres in the Province of Québec, and host to many mine development projects. The property is road accessible with excellent mining infrastructure and support facilities nearby.

*Based on core angles and previous drilling, true widths are estimated at approximately 80 to 90% of the downhole lengths reported.

Table of significant gold assays

Quality Assurance/ Quality Control
Core processing included descriptive logging and selection of samples for analyses. The NQ-size cores were sawed in half and one half was delivered to a commercial laboratory. The samples were delivered to the Accurassay preparation laboratory in Sudbury where they were crushed and a 500 gram pulp was prepared. The pulp was then shipped to Accurassay Laboratories in Thunder Bay for analyses. The gold assaying method uses a standard Fire Assay with AA finish technique on a 30 gram aliquot taken from a 500 gram split from the submitted sample. Commercially prepared standards and blanks were inserted by Alto every 25 samples to ensure precision of the results. The laboratory performs repeat check assays every 10 samples on pulps to ensure internal lab quality control. The results reported represent mathematical averages of all analyses performed on each specific sample.

Robert J. Tremblay P. Geo (Quebec), Consulting Geologist to Alto Ventures, is responsible for supervision of the diamond drilling program.

About Pacific North West Capital Corp:
Pacific North West Capital Corp. (TSX: PFN; OTCBB: PAWEF; Frankfurt: P7J.F) is a mineral exploration company focused on Platinum Group Metals (PGM), precious and base metals. Management's corporate philosophy is to be a Project Generator, Explorer and Project Operator with the objective of option/joint venturing projects with major and junior mining companies through to production. To that end, Pacific North West Capital's current option/joint ventures agreements are with Anglo Platinum, First Nickel, Fire River Gold Corp. and Alto Ventures. 

Pacific North West Capital Corp. is well funded with an experienced management team and the ability to take advantage of the tremendous under funded opportunities that are available in the mining sector today. 

Management of Pacific North West Capital plans to use their technical, financing and deal making abilities to acquire additional Platinum Group metals, base metals and precious metals projects on an international scale. To that end, the company is in the process of adding key technical and financial people to our management, advisory team and to our board of directors. Pacific North West Capital is an International Metals Group of Companies.

About Alto Ventures Ltd
Alto Ventures Ltd. is a gold exploration and development company with a portfolio of highly prospective properties in the Canadian Shield. The Company is currently active in Quebec where it is focused on the Destiny Gold project in the Abitibi Greenstone Belt and in Ontario in the Beardmore and Shebandowan gold districts. 

On behalf of the Board of Directors

"Harry Barr"
Harry Barr, President & CEO

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The conversion between grams/ton and ounces/ton were done through the facilities of http://www.metric-conversions.org/weight/grams-to-ounces.htm

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