Ai Adams, 38, disappeared after a boating accident on the Yukon River on May 21, 2017. A native of Tokyo who had settled in the Beaver area and married local trapper Clifford Tuffy Adams, Ai ran Japanese-language tours and worked as a photographer while living a subsistence lifestyle with her husband.

The couple and a third person, Kim Andon, were returning from a hunting trip when their boat capsized about six miles downriver from Beaver. Andon, the only one wearing a life jacket, made it ashore and later reported seeing Ai and Clifford unresponsive in the water. Clifford’s body was recovered nearly a month later between Beaver and Stevens Village; Ai was never found. At the time she went missing Ai was described as 5 feet 5 inches, 140 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes, wearing a black shirt, camouflage pants, a large winter coat, and boots.

The Alaska State Troopers investigated and search efforts were extensive, but Ai was not located and is presumed drowned. Did anyone in the Beaver or Yukon River communities have contact with Ai or remember seeing the boat on May 21, 2017?