Trained Survivalist Now Missing For Two Months in Alaskan Wilderness

A Wisconsin survivalist has gone missing in the Alaskan wilderness after he set out on a five-month hike through the state’s backcountry.

Alaska State Troopers are searching for 31-year-old Thomas Seibold of Three Lakes, who had planned to stay in the northwest Alaskan backcountry through October. He had booked a flight home to Wisconsin on Nov. 11, which he never made.

Seibold, who works as an instructor at the Talking Drum Outdoor School, has not been heard from in nearly two months. He was last seen at the end of September by a woman he stayed with 30 miles north of the Alaskan village of Ambler.

Seibold arrived in Alaska in June after six years of survivalist training at the Talking Drum Outdoor School, which teaches American Indian values along with primitive hunting and gathering techniques.

At the start of his trip, Seibold stayed at an Alaska Native fish camp in the southeastern part of the state, and he later headed north from there.

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