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| Missing Swiss couple found frozen in Alps after 75 years |
| 2017-07-20 |
| [CNN] A Swiss couple who disappeared from their farm in the Alps during World War II have finally been found, 75 years later, mummified in a glacier. Marcelin, 40, and Francine, 37, Dumoulin went missing on August 15, 1942, after leaving to milk their cows in a meadow near their home. They never returned to their family, including their six children. A worker found the frozen bodies of a man and a woman last week during routine maintenance. The corpses were preserved in the receding Tsanfleuron glacier, near a slew of trendy ski resorts at 2,600 meters (8,500 feet) above sea level. "From afar, it looked like small rocks, but there were too many in the same place," noted nearby Glacier 3000 resort director Bernhard Tschannen in an interview with Radio Television Swisse. When he got closer, he noticed a collection of frozen accessories -- backpacks, watches, mess kits, a glass bottle and boots -- all of which dated back several decades. Decked in World War II-era clothing, the duo was frozen close together. Their bodies have since been airlifted from the Alps. The couple's youngest daughter, 79-year-old Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, told Swiss paper Le Matin their children had never stopped looking for them. "We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day," she said. Another daughter, Monique Gautschy-Dumoulin, told Radio Television Swisse (RTS) her parents were walking to the valley the morning of their disappearance. It was a nice day, she says. Her father was singing. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 "I told you we should have turned left back there, ask somebody for directions!" |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-07-20 10:51 |
| #4 Glaciers are not static, they are slow moving rivers of ice. Something that falls in (like a crevasse) will slowly flow down till it eventually emerges from the end. Gerbil Worming has squat all to do with it. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-07-20 09:15 |
| #3 Science is grand, the academia however... |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-07-20 08:49 |
| #2 So that long ago the glacier reached as far it does today. It looks like we have found another climate cycle -- time to refine the climate models. Ain't science grand! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-20 08:29 |
| #1 All in the natural order of things. Climate change brings closure to the family. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-07-20 07:42 |