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Glaciers in the Swiss Alps are steadily receding as a heatwave hits Europe

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Glaciers in the Swiss Alps are steadily receding as a heatwave hits Europe

This summer’s soaring temperatures in the Swiss Alps are causing melting glaciers to reveal their secrets. Those venturing out to explore the region have come across the wreckage of an airplane lost more than half a century ago and even human remains.

According to a report by The Guardian, two French climbers found human bones a week ago while climbing the Chessjen glacier in the southern canton of Valais. The information was confirmed by a police spokesman. On the same day, the skeleton was removed from the glacier by helicopter.

Another body had been found a week earlier on the Stockji Glacier near the resort of Zermatt, northwest of the Matterhorn. In both cases, the process of identification via DNA analysis is still ongoing and will take “a few more days”, the Valais police said.

The police in the Alpine region have kept a list of around 300 missing persons since 1925. This list includes supermarket chain millionaire KarlErivan Haub a triple German, Russian and American citizen who disappeared while training for a ski tour in the Zermatt region in April 7, 2018. German media linked the body found on Stockji Glacier to Haub, who was finally declared dead in 2021.

However, one of the climbers who discovered the body told the newspaper Blick that the clothes they found were neoncolored, “in the style of the 80s”.

plane crash

In the first week of August, a climbing guide discovered the wreckage of an airplane that had crashed into the Aletsch Glacier near the Jungfrau and Mönch peaks in June 1968.

“From a distance I thought I saw two backpacks,” Dominik Nellen, 38, told the Guardian. Upon closer inspection, the objects turned out to be wreckage from a Piper Cherokee plane that crashed in the area on June 30, 1968, carrying on board a professor, a medical director and his son, all from Zurich, had on board. The bodies were recovered at the time, but the debris was not.

The Swiss Alps have already experienced two severe heat waves this summer. In July, authorities advised mountaineers not to climb the Matterhorn due to unusually high temperatures, which reached almost 30°C in Zermatt.

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