Five days after Anchorage hunter Robert Johnson went missing on the Kenai Peninsula, his body has been found. Alaska State Troopers said it is likely he died in a fall while scouting mountain goat habitat above Port Dick near the very end of the Peninsula, about 150 miles south of Anchorage. The Homer News, which has followed the search for Johnson since it began, reported that he "appeared to have fallen down a steep ravine in the Brown Mountain area near Port Dick and received fatal injuries.''
It remains unclear whether he died in the fall or from injuries and exposure in the days after the fall. He was reported missing Sunday by hunting companion Grant Gaberino of Anchorage, but because of the remnants of a typhoon pounding the Gulf of Alaska coast searchers couldn't even reach Gaberino until Wednesday. Pilots and pararescuemen from the Alaska Air National Guard's 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons in Anchorage managed to make it into the hunters' camp that day and fly Gaberino safely out. With weather better on Thursday, they began a painstaking search for Johnson, but were unable to find him today.