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 ...

The beautiful, yet deadly mud flats of Alaska's Turnagain Arm tragically claimed another victim this week, after a 20-year-old man became stuck waist deep and drowned with the incoming tide.

Zachary Porter, of Lake Bluff, Illinois, was walking on the mud flats at the treacherous Turnagain Arm — a 48-mile-long estuary carved out by glaciers — with friends on Sunday evening when he ...

A man who was walking on tidal mud flats with friends in the Alaska estuary of Turnagain Arm became submerged up to his waist in the quicksand-like silt and drowned as the tide came in before ...

UPDATED COVERAGE: ‘He was the best in all of us:’ Family to establish foundation in memory of son who drowned in Alaska mud flats ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A man who was walking on tidal mud ...

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 ...

An Illinois man who had been walking on tidal mud flats in an Alaska estuary reportedly drowned over the weekend after becoming stuck as the tide came in. The Lake Bluff man was there with friends ...