Researcher missing after falling into stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier

Italian man falls down vertical shaft in ice after body of another missing recovered near glacier on Monday

A researcher from Italy is missing after falling into a stream on Alaska's Mendenhall Glacier - after the body of another man, a hiker from Arizona, was found earlier this week off a trail near the glacier, authorities said.

According to the state department of public safety, Alaska wildlife troopers received a report on Tuesday that a man had gone missing after falling into a stream on the glacier and being pushed by the water into a small, vertical shaft in the ice known as a moulin. The man, whose name was not immediately released, was with two other people when he fell. He was conducting research on the glacier at the time, a department spokesperson, Tess Williams, said by email on Wednesday.