The man was 38 years old when he died on the Theodul Glacier in September 1986.
Los remains of a German mountaineer what was there disappeared in September 1986almost 37 years ago, were discovered in a glacier in the Swiss Alpsin the vicinity of Zermatt a town near the border with Italy, as reported Thursday by the police of the canton of Valais (southwest), where the discovery was made.
The identity of the mountaineer, who he was 38 years old at the time of his death and whose name was not revealed, it was possible to corroborate thanks to the DNA analysis of his remains in a laboratory, as well as the fragments of the climbing equipment that belonged to him and that were found in the area. TO
He habitual glacier retreat in summer although accelerated in recent years due to global warming, sometimes allows these findings in areas such as the Swiss Alps.
Specifically, the skeleton was found on past july 12 in it theodul glacier by a group of climbers who traveled that place.
The remains were then examined by experts in the forensic medicine area of Sion’s Valais Hospital, in collaboration with the judicial identification section of the local police. Two weeks later, they managed to identify who they belonged to.
Dozens of mountaineers have lost their lives in recent decades in the vicinity of Zermatt, mountaineering mecca especially on the slopes of the mythical Matterhorn peak -also known as Matterhorn-, a true symbol of Switzerland despite the fact that the southern slope of this 4,478-meter mountain is in Italy.