Mysterious skeleton find solved in the Swiss Alps – Dead German has been missing for 32 years

Created: 08/30/2022, 13:58

German missing for 32 years – Swiss glacier releases body

© Canton of Valais police

Human bones have surfaced on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.

Rumors of a missing billionaire began to circulate.

Now a DNA analysis brings clarity.

Zermatt – On July 26, 2022, two mountaineers discovered a skeleton and various pieces of equipment on the Stockji glacier near Zermatt.

The Swiss media quickly speculated whether it could be the mortal remains of a missing billionaire.

In 2018, the former Tengelmann boss disappeared without a trace in Valais.

He was last seen in Zermatt.

Skeleton found on the Swiss glacier: DNA analysis with a clear result

Now the result of the DNA analysis is available.

It is an alpinist who has been missing in Switzerland since 1990, according to the Valais canton police.

It is a missing man from Germany, as the police headquarters in Reutlingen (Baden-Württemberg) and the public prosecutor's office in Stuttgart announced on Tuesday (30 August).

The mountaineers found the human bones of a then 27-year-old man from Nürtingen on the glacier in Zermatt.

After more than 32 years, the fate of the young man has finally been clarified.

Swiss glacier: 27-year-old disappeared on a glacier tour in August 1990

In August 1990, the young man had been on a multi-day mountain hike from Chamonix to Domodossola.

However, he never arrived at his destination.

The search was unsuccessful.

Even then, an accident was assumed.

But so far there has been no certainty.

After 32 years, the glacier released his body.

Swiss Alps: Glacier melt releases bodies and parts of plane wreckage

"The retreat of the glaciers brings to light more and more missing mountaineers who were reported missing several decades ago," writes the cantonal police of Valais in the statement.

At the beginning of August, wreckage of an airplane was discovered on the Aletsch Glacier between Jungfraufirn and Konkordiaplatz.

According to the police, according to initial findings, it is wreckage from a Piper Cherokee with the registration HB-OYL.

Which crashed in the region on June 30, 1968.

Salvage operations are planned and should start as soon as possible.

The glaciers in the Alps are melting.

The Swiss glaciers have halved due to climate change and the forecast for the future looks bleak.

Even in Austria, the glacier shrinkage can no longer be stopped.