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Melting Himalayan glaciers pose risk to worldMelting Himalayan glaciers pose risk to world
climate change-induced ice melt, police said Monday.William Stampfl was reported missing in June 2002, aged 59, when an avalanche buried his climbing party on the mountain Huascaran, which stands more than 22,000 feet high. Search and rescue efforts were fruitless.
Peruvian police said his remains were finally exposed by ice melt on the Cordillera Blanca range of the Andes.
Stampfl's body, as well as his clothes, harness and boots had been well-preserved by the cold, according to images distributed by police.
His passport was found among his possessions, allowing police to identify the body.
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In May, the body of an Israeli hiker was found there nearly a month after he disappeared.
And last month, an experienced Italian mountaineer was found dead after he fell while trying to scale another Andean peak.
Bodies of other climbers found in recent years
As glaciers increasingly melt and recede around the world, which many scientists blame on global warming, there has been an increase in discoveries of the remains of hikers, skiers and other climbers who went missing decades ago.
六月，
five frozen bodies were retrievedfrom Mount Everest— including one that was just skeletal remains — as part of Nepal's mountain clean-up campaign on Everest and adjoining peaks Lhotse and Nuptse.去年，
remains of a German climberwho went missing in 1986 were recovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.In 2017, Italian mountain rescue crews
recovered the remains of hikerson a glacier on Mont Blanc's southern face likely dating from the 1980s or 1990s. Just a few weeks later, the remains of a climber discovered in the Swiss Alps were identified as a British mountaineer whowent missing in 1971, local police said Thursday.That same year, a shrinking glacier in Switzerland revealed the bodies of a frozen couple whoÂ
went missing 75 years以前。Marcelin Dumoulin and his wife, Francine, were 40 and 37 years old when they disappeared on Aug. 15, 1942. Regional police told local media that their bodies were discovered near a ski lift on the glacier by a worker for an adventure resort company.
In 2016, the bodies of a renowned mountain climber and expedition cameraman who were buried in a Himalayan avalanche in 1999Â 被發現Â partially melting out of a glacier.
In 2015, the remains of two Japanese climbers who went missing in 1970 on Switzerland's famous Matterhorn were found and their identities were confirmed through the DNA testing, Reuters reported.
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