👤Missing Person🔴 Missing
Jim Thornton
Gender:male
📍 Location
Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, Idaho
Coordinates: 45.06712, -114.84016
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45.0671°, -114.8402°
📝 Description
Blindfolded test subject dropped into the Frank Church wilderness as part of a Backpacker Magazine experiment to gauge what it means to be utterly lost.
🔍 Circumstances
Air-dropped into the 2-million-acre wilderness to determine what it means to be lost; the subject was blindfolded and left to navigate with only basic survival skills.
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Case Information
- Case ID
- cmivpm10y00xe8f0kgu6d8w5r
- Primary Source
- www.backpacker.com
- Added to Map
- December 7, 2025