At 3:31 pm on Sunday, the Command Post at the Arctic Man event was notified that a snow machine accident involving a 9-year-old boy had occurred five miles northwest of the event.

The young boy had been riding his father’s snow machine after the father stopped to take a break and had fallen into a large crevasse on the glacier in the Hoodoo mountains south of Delta Junction.

It was reported by trooper dispatch that the boy, Shjon Brown, fell into the 200-foot hole with the machine on top of him.

North American Outdoor Institute climbers and a U.S. Army Black Rapids high angle rescue team responded to the scene. NAOI climbers and an ER doctor decended into the crevasse in an attempt to find the child. Initially, only the snow machine was visible to the climbers that decended into the hole.

Alaska State Troopers also responded to the scene and conducted scene security in order to prevent additional people from falling into the crevasse.

Crews searched and dug through the night and the child was found later, buried under six to eight feet of snow under the machine. His body was retrieved at 12:40 am on Monday morning.

The boy’s remains were transported to the State Medical Examiner’s office in Anchorage for autopsy.