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The lost patrol The Mounties' Yukon Tragedy December 21, 1910 Four men from the Royal North-West Mounted Police set off on a journey from Fort McPherson NWT to Dawson City Yukon by dogsled. The route they took traversed through the most vastly rugged and unforgiving terrain in the northern Yukon. Enduring unusually cold temperatures that dipped to -50 F to -60 F. The men, Inspector Francis J. Fitzgeraled, Constable George Francis Kinney, Constable Richard O'Hara Taylor, and Constable Samuel Carter, lost their way off the main route and spent weeks trying to find the way back.

During this time the four men had eaten all of their rations, and succumb to killing and eating all of their sled dogs. When they decided to turn back for Fort McPherson time and extremely cold weather faced them at every step. All four men were found dead due to exposure and starvation only 35 miles away from home. They had been out in the wilderness from December 21 to approximately February 15 when they died. Their bodies where found by a rescue patrol led by Corporal W. J. D. Dempster, Constable J. F. Fyfe, and Constable F. Turner, on March 21 and 22.