Hampton Bays man's body found

Rescue workers in Alaska said Wednesday that they found the body of a Hampton Bays man who had been reported missing.

Troopers said Adam Webb, 30, probably slipped and fell while hiking the Herbert Glacier Trail near Juneau.

Within hours of his confirmed death, memorial pages appeared on Facebook with dozens of friends sharing their loss and memories of him.

One of his friends, Katrina Bytschkow of Buffalo, created one of the pages, "Memorial for Adam Webb," and said she was planning a memorial gathering for him Monday at the University at Buffalo where he had recently earned his MBA degree.

"If you just read the comments on the memorial, you can see how he touched so many people's lives," Bytschkow said last night. "He was involved in so many of the charities here."

Webb was involved in fundraising for various cancer organizations and spent the last two spring breaks in New Orleans volunteering, helping to rebuild homes there destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, she said.

"He was one of the most adventurous people I ever met. He was up for anything and wanted to see everything," she said. "Adam was in Alaska visiting friends. His plans were to join the Peace Corps in the fall."

A search began Monday after family members reported Webb missing.

State troopers, Juneau Mountain Rescue, the U.S. Forest Service and the Southeast Alaska Dogs for Organized Ground Search participated in the effort to find Webb.

The search was called off at 9:30 p.m. Monday because of weather conditions and worker fatigue, the Division of Alaska State Troopers said in an incident report on its Web site.

The search resumed Tuesday morning and Webb's body was found about 11:30 a.m. on a rock face adjacent to the glacier, the report said.

"We have nothing suspicious," trooper Sgt. Tim Birt told the Juneau Empire. "It appears to be an unfortunate accident."

With AP