The preserved body of an American climber who went missing 22 years ago while climbing a snowy mountain in Peru has been discovered. Ice melting due to climate changePolice announced this on Monday.
William Stample was reported missing at age 59 when his climbing team was caught in an avalanche on Mount Huascaran, which is more than 22,000 feet above sea level, in June 2002. Search and rescue efforts were unsuccessful.
Peruvian police said his body was eventually discovered by melting ice in the Cordillera Blanca mountain range in the Andes.
Images released by police showed Stampfl’s body, clothing, harness and boots were in good condition due to the cold weather.
A passport was found among his belongings, enabling police to identify the body.
The mountains of northeastern Peru, home to snow-capped peaks such as Huascaran and Cachan, are popular with climbers from all over the world.
In May, the body of an Israeli hiker was found there nearly a month after he went missing.
And last month, an experienced Italian climber was found dead after falling while attempting to summit another peak in the Andes.
Remains of other climbers discovered in recent years
As glaciers around the world continue to melt and retreat, a trend that many scientists blame on global warming, the remains of hikers, skiers and other climbers who went missing decades ago are increasingly being discovered.
In June, Five frozen bodies were recovered Nepal has removed many of the mountaintop Buddha statues from Everest, including some that were just bones, as part of a clean-up of the nearby mountains of Lhotse and Nuptse.
last year, German climber’s body The bodies of two people who went missing in 1986 were discovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.
In 2017, the Italian mountain rescue team Hiker’s body recovered A body found in a glacier on the south face of Mont Blanc is believed to have been made in the 1980s or 1990s, just weeks after a climber’s body found in the Swiss Alps was identified as that of a British climber. He went missing in 1971.Local police announced this on Thursday.
That same year, a Swiss glacier shrunk and the frozen bodies of a couple were discovered. He went missing 75 years ago. Marcellin Dumoulin and his wife Francine were 40 and 37 years old, respectively, when they went missing on August 15, 1942. Local police told local media that their bodies were found Found near a glacier ski lift By an adventure resort company employee.
In 2016, the body of a famous mountaineer and expedition photographer who was buried in an avalanche in the Himalayas in 1999 was discovered. Found The glacier is partially melting.
The bodies of two Japanese climbers who went missing on Switzerland’s famous Matterhorn in 1970 were discovered in 2015 and their identities confirmed through DNA testing, Reuters reported.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
