Body of Shjon Brown, age 9, recovered after 200 foot fall from crevasse in Alaska glacier
The body of a 9-year-old boy has been recovered from a crevasse in an Alaska glacier.
Shjon Brown
Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters says the body of Shjon Brown Monday morning.
The Fairbanks boy was on a snowmobile trip with his father, Roger, and others on Saturday. They group was in the Arctic Man Classic, racing in the Hoodoo Mountains and Shjon drove around a small mound but never reappeared.
Officials say the boy fell an estimated 200 feet into the crevasse through a moulin, a hole formed when water on the glacier surface erodes ice below.
Climbers who descended into the hole say they found Shjon’s body buried in six to eight feet now snow underneath his snowmobile.
The Arctic Man Classic is a major snowmobile and ski race
