UTAH HIKER STUCK IN QUICKSAND FREE

APīy the time the first rescuers arrived, the 20-year-old was already waist-deep in the mud. Zachary Porter, 20, drowned after finding himself stuck at Turnagain Arm estuary’s mud flats in Alaska Sunday. One of his friends immediately called 911 as the rest tried to pull him to safety. Sunday, Porter was walking with a group of friends across the mud flats when he found himself stuck between 50 to 100 feet from shore. Many others have been rescued, including a fisherman two weeks ago.

UTAH HIKER STUCK IN QUICKSAND FREE

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 got sucked into the silt, said Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Austin McDaniel.ĭespite efforts by firefighters and Porter’s pals to free him from the mud, the incoming tide submerged him.Īt low tide, the estuary is known for its picturesque but dangerous mud flats made of silt created by glacier-pulverized rocks.Īt least three other people have gotten stuck and drowned there over the years.

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Utah hiker stuck in quicksand