Michael Miller, a 22-year-old MIT student, was last seen October 23, 1983, while hiking Mount Lafayette in Franconia, New Hampshire. He and friends started the hike late in the afternoon; while ascending the Old Bridle Path Trail Miller told his companions to meet him at the top and walked ahead. He never arrived and was not seen again.

Miller wore a black leather jacket, jeans, and hiking boots, clothing described as insufficient for the cold conditions that followed. Weather after his disappearance included freezing temperatures and hurricane-force winds that hampered searches. A multiagency effort with helicopters, search dogs, and rescue teams searched for a week without finding physical evidence. An unconfirmed sighting near Greenleaf Hut, about a mile from the summit, produced no breakthrough and no trace of Miller has ever been recovered.

His disappearance remains unsolved and he is presumed to have become lost or injured on the mountain. If anyone hiked Mount Lafayette that afternoon or has information about Miller’s movements that day, please come forward.