Jon Michael Atchak, 24, was discovered Sunday afternoon after an airplane was dispatched from St. Marys to assist the search, troopers said.
Atchak was reported missing at about 10:45 a.m. Sunday, after last being seen by a village police officer at a store Saturday night, troopers said.
Officials contacted neighboring villages and searchers began combing the nearby trail systems, troopers said.
Shortly after the airplane was dispatched from St. Marys at about 2:30 p.m., searchers on the ground found the snowmachine but not Atchak, troopers said.
His body was discovered a short time later about 12 miles northeast of Chevak and about a mile and a half from his snowmachine, troopers said.
He appeared to have gotten caught in a ground blizzard that hit the night before and had died from exposure, troopers said.
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