By . Daily Mail Reporter and Helen Pow . PUBLISHED: . 16:52 EST, 17 April 2013 . | . UPDATED: . 16:52 EST, 17 April 2013 . Tragic: The body of Shjon Brown, 9, pictured, who fell down a 200-foot crevasse in Alaska on the weekend has been found buried under six to eight feet of snow . The body of a nine-year-old boy who fell down a 200-foot crevasse in Alaska on the weekend has been found buried under six to eight feet of snow. Officials believe Shjon Brown, from Fairbanks, died after he crashed his snowmobile through a glacier on Saturday in the Hoodoo Mountains of Alaska. Rescue workers recovered Shjon's body at around 12:40 a.m. on Monday, Alaska State Troopers spokesman Megan Peters confirmed. 'Recovery workers reported that his . body was located buried in six to eight feet of snow underneath the snow . machine,' she said, according to the Los Angeles Times. Recovering the boy's body was difficult because of the depth of the hole and the condition of the ice. Rescuers . were required to rappel into the crevasse and search the bottom where . the boy's goggles and helmet were seen, along with the snowmobile. Crew members of the Army's Alaska Northern Warfare Training Center descended 145 feet so that they could get to the 15-foot space inside the glacier on Sunday. Rescue efforts: Members of the Army's Alaska Northern Warfare Training Center descended 145 feet into the crevasse in the Hoodoo Mountains . Hard work: They shoveled 3,000 pounds of snow which was then packed into bags and lifted it to soldiers above . Sad outcome: They were not expecting to find the boy alive, and they did end up finding his body . The group of men shoveled 3,000 pounds of snow which was then packed into bags and lifted it to soldiers above. Only after doing so, they found the body of Shjon. His body will be transported to the State Medical Examiner's Office in Anchorage for autopsy. The young snowmobile racer had been . riding the machine with his father at the Arctic Man Classic and Sno-Go - . a major snowmobile and ski race in the Hoodoo Mountains in central . Alaska. The boy's father stopped on a hillside to watch his son as he rounded a snow mound and disappeared. Crushed: Shjon, pictured, was found under six to eight feet of snow and his snowmobile . Father and son: The boy's father Roger, pictured with him at left, stopped on a hillside to watch his son, right, as he rounded a snow mound and disappeared . When the father went looking for the boy he found that Shjon had fallen into a deep hole in the glacier, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. Such holes - called mulans - can spring . open in glaciers when water welling up from a spring melts away the snow . beneath the surface. Heartbreak: The little boy had been riding the snowmachine, pictured, with his father Roger . Snow fans: The father and son, pictured left and right on Saturday before the accident, were avid fans of extreme sports . A trained climber rappelled down the hole and found Shjon 's goggles and snowmobile, though there was initially no sign of the young boy. Authorities were assisted by a team from the U.S. Army Black Rapids-Northern Warfare Training Center to recover the body. The tragic accident occurred about five miles north of the Arctic Man Classic, where snow enthusiasts, using skies, boards and snowmobiles were competing on the weekend.
Shjon Brown, from Fairbanks, died after . he crashed his snowmobile through a glacier on Saturday in the Hoodoo . Mountains of Alaska . Rescuers recovered his body under his snowmobile and six to eight feet of snow at 12:40 a.m. on Monday . Had been riding the machine with his father Roger Brown in the Hoodoo Mountains of Alaska on Saturday when he disappeared .