has claimed around 300 lives, according to a Himalayan database. Victims are sometimes left on the peak, as it is too dangerous to transport them out. Long buried under snow and ice, some of those bodies have surfaced due to rising temperatures.
"Because of global warming, the ice sheet and glaciers are fast melting and the dead bodies that remained buried all these years are now becoming exposed," Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association,“We have brought down dead bodies of some mountaineers who died in recent years, but the old ones that remained buried are now coming out,” he added.were found due to melting ice.
The mummified remains of a Swiss couple who went missing and were found in a glacier in the Diablerets mountains, in southern Switzerland, in a photo made available July 18, 2017.Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the parents of seven children, had gone to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on August 15, 1942, but never returned, Reuters reported.
Their bodies were found remarkably preserved in a glacier, and their belongings were intact, witnesses said at the time.“As the glacier receded, it gave up their bodies,” Bernhard Tschannen, then-director of ski lift company Glacier 3000, told the newspaper Tribune de Geneve,