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German hiker found in Alps 30 years after disappearance
The remains of a German hiker who disappeared while climbing in the Swiss Alps 30 years ago has been found embedded in a glacier, police said Wednesday.
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In this photo provided by James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey, the Stein glacier in Switzerland in 2006. Over the past decade or so scientists and photographers keep returning to the world’s glaciers, watching them shrink with each visit. Now they want other people to see what haunts them in a series of before and after photos. (Extreme Ice Survey via AP/James Balog)
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he remains of a German hiker who disappeared while climbing in the Swiss Alps 30 years ago has been found embedded in a glacier, police said Wednesday.
The find was made on July 25 by two people climbing the Lagginhorn mountain, in southern Switzerland, police said in a statement.
A few hundred metres before reaching the peak, the hikers spotted "a hand and two shoes", area police said.
Extracting the remains that day was impossible because of poor weather, but rescue workers arrived by helicopter the following day, removed the remains from the ice and brought them to a hospital in the capital Bern for identification.
Test have confirmed the climber was a German national born in 1943 who disappeared on August 11, 1987.
The discovery came just two days after a Swiss couple who disappeared while walking in the Alps in 1942 were found in a receding glacier.
