Sailor Louis P. Noros was a crewman on Lieutenant Commander George W. DeLong's steamer Jeannette during her 1879-1881 Arctic expedition. After their ship sank in June 1881, her crew made a three-month journey by foot across the rugged ice and by boat in the frigid sea north of Siberia. Noros was in DeLong's boat, which landed at the northern end of the Lena River Delta in mid-September.
After the DeLong party become exhausted trying to find inhabitants, Noros and Seaman William F.C. Nindemann, both relatively stronger than the others, were sent ahead to seek help. Following nearly two weeks of trudging through the inhospitable terrain, they encountered a native but, speaking no language the local people could understand, could not tell them of the tragedy taking place behind them. By the time their information was acted upon, DeLong and the other men with him had died of exposure and starvation.
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