Missing Savoonga man found dead of apparent hypothermia

Savoonga in December 2013. (Photo by Anna Rose MacArthur/KNOM)
The body of Harlan Kingeekuk of Savoonga was found around 6 p.m. Thursday after he had been missing for about five days. Local volunteer search ground crews recovered Kingeekuk’s body before a Coast Guard helicopter arrived on the scene.
A Savoonga Village Police Officer reported Kingeekuk missing four days after he left on a four-wheeler to visit an archaeological dig site. Local volunteer searchers located Kingeekuk&rsqu