{"id":117316,"date":"2026-08-19T09:52:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117316\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:52:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T09:52:35","slug":"bodies-of-belgian-climbers-who-vanished-in-1992-found-in-swiss-alps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/117316\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of Belgian climbers who vanished in 1992 found in Swiss Alps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        The bodies of two Belgian climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps 34 years ago have been found, freed from the melting Trift Glacier, local police said.\n                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">On July 26th, a hiker reported finding two bodies on the glacier in southern Switzerland, near the Italian border, the Valais cantonal police said on August 19th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The bodies had been taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at a hospital in Sion for identification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8220;A direct comparison of DNA profiles has formally established that these are two mountaineers who went missing in the Weissmies region in 1992,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The two Belgian men were aged 39 and 41 when they disappeared over three decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Valais police maintain a list of missing persons dating back to 1925, primarily in high mountains and rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Climate change has accelerated the melting of glaciers, with the retreating ice releasing bodies of climbers it has held for years, and even decades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Last year, the bones of a Swiss mountaineer who disappeared in 1994 were found on a glacier on the Ober Gabelhorn mountain, also in Valais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The bodies of two Belgian climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps 34 years ago have been found,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-117316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117121564713985043","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}