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PERISHED We have just learned that the team of scientists was lost in a boating accident while traveling from Sireniki to Provideniya on 7 September. Bill Fitzhugh knew them well. He mourns the loss of three of this country's authorities on Eskimo anthropology: Steven McNaab, Richard Condon, and Bill Richard. Alexander Pika, a leading Russian arctic anthropologist, also died, as did the group's Russian Yupik Eskimo translator and the entire Yupik Eskimo boat crew. This serves as a grim reminder that working in the arctic is always dangerous. In an April 1993 incident, a helicopter with an anthropology-journalism team aboard crashed en route from Cape Schmidt to Provideniya. Eight died in the accident. Perhaps this helps explain why officials in Cape Schmidt were unwilling to let us fly in less than perfect conditions. |
