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Remains of Climbers Who Vanished in 1992 Are Found
Newser • • world
Key Points:
- The bodies of two Belgian climbers who disappeared in 1992 have been discovered on the Trift Glacier in Switzerland, as the glacier thaws.
- The climbers, aged 39 and 41 at the time, vanished while attempting to summit the Weissmies mountain but were forced to turn back due to bad weather.
- The remains were identified through DNA testing after being spotted by a hiker on July 26 near the Italian border in the canton of Valais.
- Swiss authorities maintain a missing-persons list dating back to 1925, and similar glacier discoveries have occurred recently, including a body found last year from a 1994 disappearance in the same region.
