Man missing after meltwater pushed him into Alaska glacier shaft

An Italian man conducting research on an Alaska glacier was missing after he fell in a stream of meltwater and went into a 2-foot-wide vertical shaft in the ice Tuesday afternoon, officials said. The man, who hasn’t been identified pending notification of his family, was on the Mendenhall Glacier when he fell into a stream, the Alaska Department of Public Safety said in a statement Wednesday. “The water then pushed him into a moulin, which is a vertical shaft in a glacier where