The consequences of global warming have made it possible on several occasions to find the bodies of people who have disappeared in the high mountains for several decades.
The latest of these discoveries recently occurred at the Stockji glacier (Switzerland), reports Le Parisien.
Two French mountaineers who were there were caught by the bright colors in the snow.
As they approached, they made out a shredded body.
“It was a mummy.
The cold from the glacier had frozen everything,” testified Luc Lechanoine.
The death could date back to the 1970s or 1980s. A telescopic baton invented in 1974 was indeed next to the corpse.
The macabre discovery is explained by global warming in the high mountains, where the thickness of the glacier corresponds to the bottom of the crevasses of 40 years ago.
Bodies found long after
Some knowingly embark on research, such as Michel Baud, whose friend Jean-François Benedetti disappeared in 1976. After several attempts, he went to Glacier Long again in 2019 and saw an orange backpack using the zoom of his camera.
The body of the missing man was nearby.
In Zermatt (Switzerland), a file lists the names of more than 300 of these disappeared in the high mountains.
On the French side, the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM) of Chamonix (Haute-Savoie) holds a file which currently contains nearly 150 names of people who have disappeared in the Alps since 1958.
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