Researcher Who Went Missing After Getting Pulled into Glacier Is Dead

NEED TO KNOW

Alaska Wildlife Troopers were notified on Sept. 2 that a man had fallen into a stream on Mendenhall Glacier and then pushed by the water into a small, vertical opening in the ice

Authorities confirmed on Sept. 8, that the researcher, identified as Riccardo Pozzobon, had died

In a tribute, the European Space Agency said Pozzobon was a researcher at the University of Padua’s Department of Geosciences in Italy

Authorities said a researcher who disappeared after falling into a stream on Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier has died.

The Alaska Department of Public Safety (DPS) said that around 1:45 p.m. local time on Sept. 2, troopers were notified that an adult male — later identified as Riccardo Pozzobon, 40 — had fallen into the stream and then vanished after being pushed by th