The remains of a climber who went missing in 1994 have been found on a Swiss glacier, police said.
Climbers ascending the Ober Gabelhorn mountain discovered human remains on October 15th, the southern Valais region’s cantonal police said in a statement.
After receiving the report from the mountaineers, officers reached the site by helicopter to collect the remains and personal effects from the glacier.
Two climbers disappeared in the area on November 4th, 1994.
“One of the two individuals had already been found in 2000. The discovery of the second mountaineer’s remains has now fully solved the disappearance of the two men,” the police said.
“The investigation led to the identification of the second missing person. He is a Swiss citizen born in 1969.”
The bodies of missing Alpinists occasionally turn up on Switzerland’s glaciers.
In 2022, two human skeletons were found on Valais glaciers.
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In July 2017, the Tsanfleuron glacier turned up the bodies of a couple who disappeared in 1942.
The bones of three brothers who died in 1926 were found on the Aletsch glacier in June 2012.
And in 2022 the wreckage of a plane that crashed in 1968 was discovered on the Aletsch glacier.
The bodies of the three people on board were recovered soon after the crash but the wreckage was left.
The ascent of the Ober Gabelhorn, 4,063 metres high, is prized by experienced mountaineers.
