The heartbroken family of a 20-year-old Illinois man who drowned Sunday after getting stuck in quicksand-like silt on Alaska’s mud flats said he loved to travel and was on an “adventure ...

Zachary Porter, 20, drowned after finding himself stuck at Turnagain Arm estuary’s mud flats in Alaska Sunday. AP By the time the first rescuers arrived, the 20-year-old was already waist-deep ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in an Alaska estuary got stuck up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before frantic ...