(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 10 – The melting of the Swiss glaciers has led to the discovery of human remains and a plane that has been missing for 50 years. The Guardian reports it.
In recent days, two French climbers found human bones while climbing the Chessjen glacier in the southern canton of Valais, the skeleton was transported by helicopter to the forensic institute, police said. The bones were discovered near an old trail that fell into disuse about 10 years ago, said Dario Andenmatten, the guardian of the Britannia refuge where many climbers begin their ascents in the region. The two hikers probably only made their discovery because they relied on an old map.
A week earlier, another body had been found on the Stockji Glacier near the town of Zermatt, northwest of the Matterhorn. In both cases, the Valais police said that the process of identifying human remains through DNA analysis is still ongoing. In the first week of August, a mountain guide discovered the wreck of a plane that crashed on the Aletsch Glacier, near the peaks of the Jungfrau and Mönch, in June 1968.
Police in the Alpine region maintain a list of around 300 cases of missing persons since 1925, including German supermarket chain millionaire Karl-Erivan Haub, who went missing in the Zermatt region while training for a ski excursion on 7 April 2018. German media linked it to the body discovered on the Stockji Glacier in Haub. However, one of the two hikers who discovered the body told the Blick newspaper that the clothes they found were neon-colored, “in the style of the 1980s.” The corpse was mummified and slightly damaged, “but almost complete”. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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