It is a sordid discovery made by two French mountaineers on the Stockji glacier in Switzerland.
While walking on the Haute Route, a famous route from Chamonix to Zermatt, the two men found a body,
Le Parisien
reports .
Imprisoned by the ice for years and freed by the melting linked to global warming, it could, according to the mountaineers, date from the 70s and 80s.
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“
It was a mummy.
The cold of the glacier had frozen everything
, ”testifies to the daily one of the two men.
“
He didn't have today's technical equipment.
He wore leather shoes, with strapped steel studs that have long been out of use.
Everything was perfectly preserved
,” he added.
Another useful clue to identification: the presence of a telescopic baton, an invention dating from the 1970s which could possibly give an indication of the date of death.
Alerted, the Zermatt police recovered the body and began an identification investigation.
According to
Le Parisien
, after having analyzed the bones and the material, the investigators will have to try to match the results of the analyzes with the data contained in a file of 300 mountaineers who have disappeared in this canton since 1925.
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