Swiss glacier skeleton identified as missing Briton
Human remains disgorged by a glacier in southwest Switzerland have been identified as a British man who was aged 32 when he went missing in the area nearly 50 years ago.
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The skeleton of the man, who has not been named, was found poking out of the Corbassière glacier in canton Valais last September.
DNA analysis and cooperation with the British authorities revealed the identity of the winter sports enthusiast who disappeared on New Year’s Eve 1974.
Switzerland’s shrinking glaciers are revealing more grisly secrets each year as they are continuously eroded by warming temperatures.
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