His emaciated body was found by hikers later that autumn in the rusted-out hulk of a 1946 Fairbanks City Transit bus, which had been abandoned in the woods by a work crew many years earlier after breaking its axle along a remote stretch of the trail.

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"He made our MOD70 go demonstrably faster, " said British record-breaking sailor Brian Thompson who was part of the boat's international crew.

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