Body of 38-year-old mountaineer who went missing in 1986 found after 37 years
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Dt. 31 July 2023, Monday
On the one hand, the glaciers are melting due to global warming, which has raised concerns among environmentalists all over the world. On the other hand, people have also got some relief due to the melting of Swiss glaciers. Relief has come as the body of a mountaineer has been found on a Swiss glacier.
At that time, the 38-year-old had come to climb the famous Matterhorn mountain.
The thing is, a group that went hiking in a Swiss glacier recently found the snow melting at one place. Due to this melting snow, a dead body came out from under the snow. The body was that of a young man. A DNA test on the body revealed that it belonged to a German mountaineer who had come to climb the famous Matterhorn mountain four decades ago. At that time the age of this person was 38 years. Surprisingly, this man disappeared in 1986 and now 37 years later his body has been found buried in the snow. The police also said that this young man went missing in September 1986 and now his body has been found.
Swiss police found remains of a missing German hiker on Theodul Glacier after 37 years.
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A boot and crampon were spotted by two mountaineers due to the glacier's melting.
Forensic analysis matched the body to the climber who went missing in 1986. pic.twitter.com/iWhb94b0EX
This is not the first incident, many cases have happened in the past
This is not the first time people have disappeared in a Swiss glacier and their bodies have been found decades later. Many such incidents have happened in the past. In 2015, the body of a Japanese mountaineer who disappeared in a blizzard on the Matterhorn in 1970 was found. Similarly, in 2014, the body of British mountaineer Jonathan Conville, who climbed the mountain in 1979, was found. The wreckage of the plane that crashed in 1968 was found last year on the Alesh Glacier.
The Swiss glaciers are feared to be completely gone by the end of this century
According to informants, Switzerland has 1400 glaciers, the most in Europe and half of the glaciers of the European Alps. According to the Swiss Academy of Sciences, Swiss glaciers decreased by six percent last year due to global warming. Which was much more than previous years and more than expected. He further said that 50 percent of the glaciers in the area have melted since 1930. The way it's melting now, it looks like the glaciers in the Alps will end by the end of this century. Everything will melt.
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