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Saas-Grund: two bodies found after… 34 years <\/p>\n
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The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers, aged 39 and 41 when they went missing in 1992, have been discovered in the melting Trift Glacier in Switzerland.\n<\/p>\n
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The remains were discovered on July 26 in the municipality of Saas-Grund, canton Valais. A recovery operation was organised and the bodies were taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the Valais Hospital in Sion for identification.<\/p>\n
\u201cA direct comparison of DNA profiles has formally established that the bodies were those of two mountaineers who had been missing in the Weissmies region since 1992,\u201d announced the Valais cantonal police.<\/p>\n
+ Dozens of Swiss glaciers likely to disappear this summer<\/a><\/p>\n On September 4, 1992, the two men had set out from the Weissmies hut with the aim of climbing the summit of the Weissmies (4,017 metres) and got as far as the Almagell hut. Caught out by appalling weather, they never reached their destination.<\/p>\n In the months that followed, several search operations were carried out, which led to the discovery of a rucksack, but not the hikers.<\/p>\n \n More<\/p>\n More <\/p>\n Demographics\n <\/p>\n Cold cases: Swiss glaciers reveal grisly surprises <\/p>\n This content was published on <\/p>\n Sep 1, 2023 <\/p>\n As Alpine glaciers melt at record rates, more and more bodies of mountaineers missing for decades are coming to light. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read more: Cold cases: Swiss glaciers reveal grisly surprises The Valais cantonal police maintains a list of missing persons detailing reports recorded since 1925. These mainly concern people who have gone missing in the high mountains or in rivers and bodies of water.<\/p>\n \u201cAs glaciers retreat, the remains of people who went missing in the mountains several decades ago are sometimes unearthed,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n \n More<\/p>\n More <\/p>\n Climate solutions\n <\/p>\n Swiss glaciers surrender secrets of the past <\/p>\n This content was published on <\/p>\n Oct 18, 2018 <\/p>\n Neolithic wooden bows, quartz arrowheads and a prayer book: archaeological treasures and human remains are surfacing from retreating glaciers. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Read more: Swiss glaciers surrender secrets of the past + How we produce English news<\/a> Articles in this story <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saas-Grund: two bodies found after… 34 years Keystone-SDA The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers, aged 39 and 41…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[101,312,457,100,103,82,41,17],"class_list":["post-117468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-article","tag-beat-various","tag-environment","tag-latest-news","tag-production-type-deepl-autotranslation","tag-sport","tag-swiss","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117122720849624839","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117468","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=117468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Corpse](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787150755_233_29ee45be0814d67af22394f578f49abf-icemen-jpg-data.jpg\")
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