(ANSA) – AOSTA, 03 AUG – Thanks to the scarce winter rainfall and the heat wave, the Stockji glacier (3,092 meters), in the Swiss Alps, not far from the Matterhorn, has returned the mummified remains of a person who had died for at least 30 years. It was two Frenchmen – Luc Lechanoine (55) and Vincent Danna (50) – who found the body while traveling the Haute Route, the mountaineering route that connects Chamonix (France) with Zermatt (Switzerland). Arriving in the Swiss town, they notified the police of the Canton of Valais, who together with the judiciary began investigations to trace the identity of the body on the basis of reports of missing persons in the mountains never found. “We did a lot of slalom between the crevasses. The mountain at this moment is made difficult by the drought. At a certain point we removed the crampons to descend on the moraine and that is where, on a glacial tongue, different effects appeared. personal, “Luc told the Swiss newspaper Le Matin. “Up close, I discovered a somewhat mummified, damaged, but complete skeleton,” continues Luc. “There was a blue and red backpack, one of the arms was still in a strap.
There was also a Leki ski or walking stick, pink and black “, a model born in 1974,” a fuchsia fleece and a rudimentary ice ax, broken in three. He wore leather boots and crampons with leather straps, an older material than the rest. She was in jeans, so not exactly equipped for the mountains. She or he had to be alone. It’s hard to say how long that body was there. I would say between 30 and 40 years, maybe more: the eighties given the fluorescent colors “. (ANSA).
Source: Ansa
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