32-Year-Old Minnesota Woman Killed In Alaska

PORTAGE VALLEY, AK — A Minnesota woman was killed after large pieces of ice fell on her in Alaska's Byron Glacier. Brittany Katherine Boegel, 32, died at the scene. A six-year-old boy and a man suffered minor injuries in the same incident.

On July 4 just before 1:15 p.m., Alaska State Troopers and U.S. Forest Service officers responded on foot to the glacier near Portage Lake on a report of ice falling and trapping someone.

When authorities arrived on scene they found that multiple people had walked under a hollowed-out, compressed snow mass that resembled a snow cave.

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Police say Boegel walked inside, under the mass before the snow ceiling fell, killing her.

Bystanders and family members were able to free Boegel from the ice, but life-saving measures were unsuccessful.

Boegel taught sixth grade at Venture Academy in Minneapolis, her LinkedIn page states.

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