Seventeen-year-old Ronald ’Rondy’ Lamont disappeared into the Yukon River on the night of January 14, 2009. He and a friend, 14-year-old Matalena Tinker, were riding a snow machine from St. Marys toward Pitkas Point and were last seen at about 10:15 p.m. Searchers found a single set of snow machine tracks that ended at an open lead of water where the Andreafski and Yukon Rivers meet; no tracks led away from the water. A single glove belonging to Lamont was recovered nearby.

Severe weather — heavy snow and winds up to 35 mph — hindered early search efforts, but 30 to 50 volunteers from Marshall, Pilot Point, St. Marys, Pitkas Point and Mountain Village later conducted extensive recovery work, including dragging the river bottom and setting a 300-foot king salmon net. Matalena Tinker’s remains were found on July 31, 2010, about 1.5 miles east of Mountain Village. Ronald Lamont has never been located and remains missing.

Did anyone in the area see the pair that night or remember the snow machine tracks near the river confluence?