A Nine-Year-Old's Body Was Found Two Days After He Fell Through A Moulin Hole In Alaska While Snowmobiling With His Father

A nine-year-old boy's body was found from a crevasse in an Alaska glacier Monday.

The boy disappeared while snowmobiling with his father two days earlier.

Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters said by email that the body of Shjon Brown, of Fairbanks, was recovered at 12:40 a.m. Monday.

The boy was on a Saturday snowmobile outing with his father and others in the Hoodoo Mountains south of Delta Junction, according to CBS News. As his father took a break on the side of a hill, Shjon drove around a small mound and did not reappear. His father traced the boy's tracks and discovered that he had fallen through a moulin, which is a hole formed when water on the glacier's surface melts ice to a crevasse below.

A climber spotted the boy's goggles and helmet and the partially visible snowmobile. Brown's body was found buried six to eight feet deep underneath his snowmobile.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported that the boy was with his father Saturday riding in the Hoodoo Mountains off the Richardson Highway between Delta Junction and Glennallen. His death took place five miles northwest of the site of the Artic Man Classic, which is a race involving snowmobiles, skiers and snowboarders.