{"id":56852,"date":"2025-11-17T15:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/remains-of-man-who-vanished-31-years-ago-found-by-climbers-on-glacier-in-switzerland\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T15:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T15:36:24","slug":"remains-of-man-who-vanished-31-years-ago-found-by-climbers-on-glacier-in-switzerland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/remains-of-man-who-vanished-31-years-ago-found-by-climbers-on-glacier-in-switzerland\/","title":{"rendered":"Remains of man who vanished 31 years ago found by climbers on glacier in Switzerland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>The remains of a climber who went missing in 1994 have been found on a Swiss glacier, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Climbers ascending the Ober Gabelhorn mountain discovered human remains on Oct. 15, the southern Wallis region&#8217;s cantonal police said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polizeiwallis.ch\/medienmitteilungen\/zinal-identifizierung-eines-vermissten-mannes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">statement<\/a>. After receiving a report from the mountaineers, officers reached the site by helicopter to collect the remains and personal effects from the Ober Gabelhorn glacier.<\/p>\n<p>The person was a Swiss citizen born in 1969, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Two climbers disappeared in the area on Nov. 4, 1994. One of the individuals was found in 2000, police said, adding that the discovery of the second mountaineer&#8217;s remains solves the mystery of their disappearance.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/1a399acf-9a4b-41c8-99c1-1d65da9d366b\/thumbnail\/620x349\/3cee729b5b58dba7237350f4197b03bb\/glacier-2025-10-18-obergabelhorn-polcantvs-1200x675.jpg#\" alt=\"glacier-2025-10-18-obergabelhorn-polcantvs-1200x675.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/1a399acf-9a4b-41c8-99c1-1d65da9d366b\/thumbnail\/620x349\/3cee729b5b58dba7237350f4197b03bb\/glacier-2025-10-18-obergabelhorn-polcantvs-1200x675.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/11\/17\/1a399acf-9a4b-41c8-99c1-1d65da9d366b\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/c11f5832c617c795437482f90f0d6648\/glacier-2025-10-18-obergabelhorn-polcantvs-1200x675.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Climbers ascending the Ober Gabelhorn mountain discovered human remains on October 15, the southern Wallis region&#8217;s cantonal police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Southern Wallis region&#8217;s cantonal police<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ascent of the Ober Gabelhorn, 13,330 feet high, is highly prized by experienced mountaineers.<\/p>\n<h2>Bodies exposed by melting glaciers in recent years<\/h2>\n<p>Rising global temperatures linked to human-driven climate change are causing\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/capturing-the-melting-of-glaciers-with-data-and-art\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">glaciers to rapidly melt<\/a><\/span>. As glaciers increasingly melt and recede around the world, there has been an increase in discoveries of the remains of hikers, skiers and other climbers who went missing decades ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August, the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/remains-researcher-vanished-1959-found-antarctic-glacier-dennis-tink-bell\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">remains of a British researcher<\/a><\/span> who vanished in 1959 in Antarctica were discovered amid rocks near a receding glacier on King George Island, located off the Antarctic Peninsula. Around the same time, a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/body-missing-father-found-glacier-vanished-1997-pakistan\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">missing man&#8217;s body<\/a><\/span> was discovered on a melting glacier in Pakistan, 28 years after he went missing.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2024, the preserved body of an\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/william-stampfl-mummified-body-us-mountaineer-found-vanished-peru-2002\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">American mountaineer was found<\/a><\/span>\u00a022 years after he disappeared while scaling a snowy peak in Peru. A month before that,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mount-everest-melting-ice-reveals-climbers-bodies-death-zone-climate-change\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">five frozen bodies were retrieved<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from Mount Everest \u2014\u00a0 including one that was just skeletal remains \u2014 as part of Nepal&#8217;s mountain clean-up campaign on Everest and adjoining peaks Lhotse and Nuptse.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/remains-climber-missing-since-1986-recovered-glacier-swiss-alps\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">remains of a German climber<\/a><\/span>\u00a0who went missing in 1986 were recovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Italian mountain rescue crews\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/mont-blac-melting-glacier-reveals-bodies-of-dead-hikers\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">recovered the remains of hikers<\/a><\/span>\u00a0on a glacier on Mont Blanc&#8217;s southern face likely dating from the 1980s or 1990s. Just a few weeks later, the remains of a climber discovered in the Swiss Alps were identified as a British mountaineer who\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/remains-swiss-alps-identified-british-climber-missing-1971-chessjengletscher-glacier\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">went missing in 1971<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>That same year, a shrinking glacier in Switzerland revealed the bodies of a frozen couple who\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/switzerland-swiss-couple-found-alps-glacier-marcelin-and-francine-dumoulin\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">went missing in 1942<\/a><\/span>. Police told local media that their bodies were\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/glacier-bodies-switzerland-tsanfleuron-dumoulin-swiss-alps-buried\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">discovered near a ski lift on the glacier<\/a><\/span>\u00a0by a worker for an adventure resort company.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, the bodies of a renowned mountain climber and expedition cameraman who were buried in a Himalayan avalanche in 1999\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/baltimore\/news\/bodies-of-elite-climber-cameraman-found-in-melting-glacier\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">were found<\/a><\/span>\u00a0partially melting out of a glacier.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/remains-climber-missing-1994-found-glacier-switzerland\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The remains of a climber who went missing in 1994 have been found on a Swiss glacier, police said. 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