Showing posts with label lost in the wild. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lost in the wild. Show all posts

27 November 2012

Troopers Suspend Search for Missing Hiker

Yesterday, I wrote of an 80-year-old hunter who was found after being lost for a few days, in good condition & happy.

This isn't that kind of story. From the Anchorage Daily News:

After 13 days of searching by air and on the ground, Alaska State Troopers have suspended their search for a Wisconsin survival instructor missing in a remote area of the Northwest Arctic.

Thomas Seibold, 31, of Three Lakes, Wis., was first reported missing on Nov. 11 after he failed to make a planned contact ahead of a flight out of Kobuk.

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"We believe things may have gone awry for him," said Sgt. Duane Stone, a supervisor for the trooper post in Kotzebue.
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Temperatures have been as low as minus 20 or minus 30 since October, dipping to minus 40 in recent days, he said.

Read the whole sad story here.