The body of 9-year-old Shjon Brown of Fairbanks, Alaska was found after he disappeared while snowmobiling with his father.
The young boy's remains were discovered in the deep crevasse of an Alaskan glacier at around 12:40 a.m. Monday.
The previous Saturday, Shjon and his dad, along with a group of a few others, made their way to the Hoodoo Mountains, located south of the Delta Junction.
His father stopped to rest on a hillside, while Shjon drove around on his snowmobile. He turned the corner of a small mound, and suddenly disappeared.
The father, stunned and confused, followed his son's tracks in the snow. He found that the child fell through a hole called a moulin, which forms when water on the surface of a glacier melts ice into a crevasse.
Moulins are difficult to see if the sunlight is reflecting off of snow's white surface. In many moulin-related instances, a thin layer of snow covering a narrow crevasse can look like a solid surface, rendering the land formations very dangerous.
According to CBS, Shjon's father called for help; a doctor, a few climbers from the North American Outdoor Institute and members from the Army's Black Rapids rescue team reached the scene, and worked into the evening to find the boy.
They finally uncovered his body beneath six to eight feet of snow late Sunday.
The father and son were about five miles northwest of the Arctic Man Classic race, which brings out snowmobiles, snowboarders and Skiers.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Minder reported the Hoodoo Mountains, where father and son rode their snowmobiles, just off the Richardson Highway between Delta Junction and Glennallen was where the incident occurred.
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