Overview

• Alaska Wildlife Troopers were alerted around 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 2, to the incident on the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau.
• The man fell into a surface stream that funneled him into a vertical shaft in the ice known as a moulin.
• Two companions lost sight of him immediately, according to the Alaska Department of Public Safety.
• Juneau Mountain Rescue deployed an ice team, but entry was deemed too hazardous, and authorities have withheld his identity pending notification of relatives.
• In a separate case a day earlier, searchers found Arizona hiker Thomas Casey, 69, dead near the glacier with injuries consistent with a fall.