A guide has found the remains of a man believed to have died in an accident on a glacier 22 years ago, high in the Austrian Alps.
Police said the discovery was made by a guide on the Schlatinkis glacier in the Hohe Tauern National Park in Austria’s eastern Tyrol province, near the Italian border, reports Al-Rai daily.
Police added that the remains were found at an altitude of about 2,900 metres, and had apparently been there for years. The guide alerted police in the Austrian town of Linz, before rescuers retrieved the remains with the help of a helicopter.
A few meters away from the remains, rescuers also found a backpack containing cash, a bank card and a driver’s license. Police said the remains appeared to be those of an Austrian man who was 37 at the time of the accident and is believed to have died in 2001.
And the man also had equipment for snowboarding. DNA is being tested to confirm the man’s identity.
