Alaska
Missing Noorvik-bound snowmachiner found dead
The seek for the second snowmachiner who set out from Kotzebue on a visit to Noorvik greater than every week in the past is over.
Alaska State Troopers say Thomas Brown didn’t survive. Searchers discovered Brown’s physique on Wednesday about 10.5 miles south of Kotzebue, close to Cape Blossom.
Brown and his pal Josiah Poll, each 18 years outdated, had messaged mates that they had been touring to Noorvik on Monday, Jan. 16.
Poll was discovered final Friday about 28 miles south of Kotzebue, hunkered down subsequent to a ridge of sea ice, which provided some safety from the wind. However Poll didn’t escape extreme frostbite and was medivaced to Anchorage for remedy.
Over the past 9 days, searchers have endured excessive chilly, some returning to Kotzebue with frostbite on their faces.
A North Slope Borough helicopter assisted in Wednesday’s search.