The remains have surfaced, and the bodies of hikers who have been missing for 37 years have been found! Swiss Glacier Melting Record breaking Rocks | Germany | Switzerland
Due to glacier melting, the body of a German mountaineer who went missing in Switzerland was found after being frozen for 37 years.
On the 28th, CNN reported, citing a statement from the police in the canton of Valais, Switzerland, that on the 12th of this month, multiple mountaineers discovered human remains and several pieces of equipment near the Teodur Glacier in the city of Zelmart. DNA analysis confirmed that the remains belonged to a German mountaineer who went missing in September 1986. At that time, the 38 year old mountaineer was reported missing due to not returning from climbing, and search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful.
Lindsay Nicholson, a glaciologist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, said that due to climate change, glaciers in the European Alps are rapidly melting, and people and objects that fall into glaciers or are buried by glacier snow will reappear.
According to Reuters, the melting rate of glaciers in Switzerland set a record for the fastest in over a hundred years last year, with a 6% decrease in glacier volume. Some rocks that have been covered by ice and snow for thousands of years have resurfaced, and people have not only discovered human remains that have been missing for decades, but even the wreckage of an airplane.