Overview

• U.S. authorities suspended recovery efforts on the Mendenhall Glacier after several days of searching without finding Riccardo Pozzobon’s body.
• Officials and colleagues said he slipped while filling a water bottle, was swept into a meltwater channel, and vanished into a glacial moulin around midday earlier this week.
• Pozzobon, 40, was a University of Padova researcher known for work on subsurface environments and lunar lava tubes, with publications in top journals and contributions to ESA astronaut training.
• The cietà GeoGeologica Italiana announced a donation fund for his partner Claudia and their young son, as the University of Padova prepares commemorations.
• He had departed Italy on August 26 for Project Gemini on the Juneau icefield and, according to a close colleague, was leading the mission and considered highly experienced in field safety.