Glenn FIELD Missing Person Case

Glenn

FIELD

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62

70 inches

70 inches

170 lbs

170 lbs

White / Caucasian

Male

In the autumn of 2018, seasoned outdoorsman Glenn Harold Field, a man in his early sixties, embarked on a journey into the vast Canadian wilderness, a setting he was intimately familiar with. He chartered a plane to the remote Rolfe Lake, approximately 150 kilometers northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories, with his three loyal German Shepherds as his only companions. His plan was to spend the winter living off the grid, a challenging endeavor he had undertaken before, intending to return to civilization in the spring or summer of 2019. The last known sighting of the 62-year-old was in the spring of 2019, when a pilot flying over the area spotted him on the west side of Rolfe Lake. After that, the wilderness held its silence, and Glenn Field was not seen or heard from again. Concern grew when the spring and summer of 2019 passed without any word from Field, who typically maintained contact with people and businesses in Yellowknife. By October 2019, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) were alerted, and a public plea for information was issued. An aerial search of the Rolfe Lake area was conducted, leading to a perplexing discovery at his campsite. Investigators found the camp had been packed up in an orderly fashion; the wooden poles for his canvas tent were laid out on the ground, but there was no garbage left behind, suggesting a deliberate departure. There was nothing at the site to indicate when he had left or where he might have been headed. Despite further searches in the summer of 2020 which turned up some of his equipment, there was no trace of Field, his grey canoe, or his dogs. The official search operations for Glenn Field concluded in September 2020, leaving his ultimate fate a mystery harbored by the rugged northern landscape. Foul play was never suspected in his disappearance; it was believed that the experienced woodsman had simply vanished while navigating the unforgiving terrain. His brother, who noted Field's past hardships in the wild, including a winter in the 1980s where he suffered severe frostbite and lost several toes, believed Glenn likely perished in the spring of 2019 while attempting to travel from his camp back toward Great Slave Lake and eventually Yellowknife. In a quiet conclusion to a deeply troubling mystery, a territorial court in Yellowknife officially declared Glenn Field deceased in April 2022. The case remains a somber reminder of the power of the northern wilderness and the enduring spirit of those who are drawn to it, leaving behind questions of what happened to Glenn Field and his three canine companions on their final journey.

Amputation Left Foot, Missing one toe Amputation Right Foot, Missing two toes Foreign Object Eyes, Glaucoma

Sep 13, 2018

Yellowknife

Northwest Territories

Yellowknife RCMP

Yellowknife

Northwest Territories

867-669-1111

867-669-1111

Law Enforcement

20191480110

Yellowknife RCMP

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Grey

Grey

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