First responders from the Haines Volunteer Fire Department and the Chilkat Valley’s State Park Ranger head out onto Chilkoot Lake to look for a man who broke through the ice on Thursday, Feb. 6, 2025, near Haines. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

Updated: Officials said a dive team sent to Haines was able to find and recover Tom McGuire from the lake at about 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 14.

Haines author and backcountry adventurer Tom McGuire,…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...