Share to ClassroomMelting Ice Shows Two Lost Climbers
A hiker found two bodies on a glacier in Switzerland in July. The ice there is melting. Police used DNA tests to learn who the men were. DNA is the code inside every body. They were two climbers from Belgium. They disappeared in the mountains in 1992. They were 39 and 41 years old. Their bodies stayed in the ice for 34 years.
The Alps are getting warmer. The ice is melting faster than before. When ice melts, it gives back things it held for many years. Police keep a long list of people lost in the mountains.
Police say they find old bodies more and more often. This also happens in other countries. In Pakistan, ice gave back a man's body after 28 years. In 2025, people found a British scientist lost in Antarctica in 1959.
