AK AK - Thomas Seibold, 31, Wisconsin man in Alaska wilderness, Sept-Nov 2012

[SheWhoMustNotBeNamed]

Alaskan author joins search for survivalist lost for months

The search for Thomas Seibold, a Wisconsin man lost in the Northwest Arctic since last September, appears to have resumed under the guidance of Alaska author Seth Kantner.

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Since the beginning of January daylight is rapidly increasing in the Ambler valley. By now they are at 9 hours of daylight. There is still not a lot of snow and what is there is too powdery to drive up the valley with snow mobiles. There have been several flights over the valleys there which lead to nothing. Next week our friend Seth from Kotzebue and Eric, our pilot, are going to land in the valley and walk to all the cabins there to look for any kind of disturbance. All the cabins there have boards on the windows and door as a protection from bears. They will enter the cabins if there’s any sign that Thomas was or is there. Only two of these cabins were really searched at an earlier phase. We hope to find any clues to where Thomas is or what could have happened to him.

More: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/alaskan-author-joins-search-survivalist-lost-months

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Thomas was added to The Charley Project:
http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/s/seibold_thomas.html

 

[Boo2007]

Another Alaska Dispatch article from December 9, 2012.

Lots of information about Thomas and his family, etc.

http://www.alaskadispatch.com/artic...ld-alive-fades-alaskas-bitter-winter-descends

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Interesting article. I didn't know he has a wife. Such a sad case. They will probably never find his remains...

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.adn.com/article/20140720/missing-alaska-without-trace

And not even a hint has been found to indicate where 31-year-old Thomas Seibold may have gone. He faded into the Brooks Range of northern Alaska just about the time DeBerry's four-wheeler was discovered along the White Mountains in the Interior. Seibold, like Griffis and a host of others gone missing, was an adventurer -- and a competent one.

He'd spent years schooling himself in ancient ways of living off the land. He was, by all accounts, good at it. The hike of roughly 30 miles he planned from a cabin where he was staying along the upper Ambler River to the village of Kobuk, where he planned to catch an airplane flight back to join his wife in Wisconsin, should not have been a problem.

And yet, something happened, and he disappeared without a trace into a land that sometimes leaves few traces.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

It's funny, I just thought about his case yesterday. I hope there will be clues one day.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

No news obviously.

 

[JerseyGirl]

still missing.

Not a hint German adventurer Thomas Seibold has been discovered since he disappeared in November 2012. An experienced wilderness traveler, the 31-year-old man left a cabin on the Ambler River in Northwest Alaska in November 2012 to hike 30 miles across the Brooks Range Mountains to meet a plane in the tiny village of Kobuk for a flight home to his young wife in Wisconsin. He never made it.

No one has ever been able to figure out what happened to him.

https://craigmedred.news/2016/08/23/the-missing-in-alaska/

 

[LostInAustin]

If you read Krakauer's book on McCandless ("Into The Wild"), he talks about a few other cases of people going to Alaska thinking they are going to survive in the wilderness, and come to a rather bad end.

.. I've been carrying around Into Thin Air for nearly a year IN MY HIKING BAG, thinking that it was Into The Wild.

Interestingly, I also read Thomas's Charley Project page today.. Even bookmarked him due to strange circumstances.

Wish they'd find something.

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[lindamichelle1]

updated Namus link:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Thomas is still missing.

 

[MagnoliaMountain]

Thomas Marco Seibold – The Charley Project

 

[Pennysmom1]

5143DMAK - Thomas Seibold

Thomas Marco Seibold – The Charley Project

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Seibold, circa 2012

• Missing Since 09/29/2012
• Missing From Ambler, Alaska
• Classification Lost/Injured Missing
• Sex Male
• Race White
• Date of Birth 06/27/1980 (43)
• Age 32 years old
• Height and Weight 6'0, 165 pounds
• Distinguishing Characteristics Caucasian male. Red hair, green eyes. Seibold was born in Germany and pronounces his name as "Tow-moss."

Details of Disappearance​

Seibold was last seen at a cabin thirty miles north of Ambler, Alaska on September 29, 2012. He is a survivalist who trained for six years at the Talking Drum Outdoor School, where he was also an instructor, and was on a five-month trip through the wilderness. He has prior experience camping in the extreme north, including in Norway.

Seibold may have left the cabin to travel further north to the 8.5 million acre Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, which has no roads or trails and is only accessible by air and water. He was supposed to arrive in Fairbanks, Alaska in November and had booked a flight home to Wisconsin for November 11, but he never made his flight and has never been heard from again.

An extensive search turned up no indication of Seibold's whereabouts. His case remains unsolved; he was declared legally dead in 2013.

Investigating Agency​

• Alaska State Troopers
• Kotzebue Office
• 907-442-3222

Source Information​

• Alaska State Troopers
• The Anchorage Daily News
• The Daily Mail
• The Alaska Dispatch
• Alaska Court System

Updated 2 times since October 12, 2004. Last updated June 8, 2018; middle name added, details of disappearance updated.

 

[feels_close_to_home]

Name: Thomas Marco Seibold
NamUs#: MP26424
Missing Age: 32
Sex: Male
Race / Ethnicity: White / Caucasian
Missing From: Ambler, Alaska
Missing Since: October 7, 2012
Height: 6' 0" | 72 Inches
Weight: 165 lbs
Hair Color: Red/Auburn
Eye Color: Green / Green

Circumstances of Disappearance:
Thomas was last seen at a fish camp in the Ambler, Alaska area on September 29, 2012. His last known journal entry was on October 7, 2012. His plan was to hike more than 25 miles to Kobuk, fly to Fairbanks by 11/15/2012 and return home to Wisconsin. He never arrived. It has been reported that he departed the camp possibly by canoe, which was later located on the west side of the Ambler River. Searches of the area were unsuccessful in locating him.

Official NamUs Link:

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)

By bringing people, information, forensic science and technology together, NamUs helps resolve cases.

www.namus.gov

Other Links:

Official searches for hiker end, Alaska wilderness mystery remains

The National Park Service has joined Alaska State Troopers in calling off their search for Thomas Seibold, a German hiker missing since October in remote Northwest Alaska. But friends at the Teaching Drum Outdoor School vow to press on with privately funded search efforts as best they can.

www.adn.com