2026年8月19日 / 美国东部时间早上7:34 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/法新社
瑞士警方周三表示，两名34年前在阿尔卑斯山区失踪的比利时登山者的遗体已被找到，从正在融化的特里夫特冰川中被发掘出来。
瓦莱州地区警方在一份声明中表示，7月26日，一名徒步旅行者在瑞士南部靠近意大利边境的冰川上发现了两具遗体。遗体已被送往锡永的瓦莱州医院法医学研究所进行身份鉴定。
声明称：“通过DNA profiles的直接比对，已正式确认这两人是1992年在魏斯米斯山区失踪的两名登山者。”
这两名比利时男子失踪时分别为39岁和41岁。
瓦莱州警方保留着一份自1925年以来的失踪人员名单，这些人员大多是在高山和河流中失踪的。
警方在周三的声明中表示：“由于冰川消融，数十年前在山区失踪的人员遗骸不断被发现。”
近年来融化冰川暴露的遗体
气候变化加速了冰川融化，不断后退的冰层释放出被封存多年甚至数十年的登山者遗体。
去年，一名1994年失踪的瑞士登山者的骸骨在瓦莱州的奥伯加贝尔霍恩山的冰川上被发现。
2025年8月，一名1959年在南极洲失踪的英国研究人员的遗骸在南极半岛附近的乔治王岛一处正在消退的冰川附近的岩石中被发现。几乎同一时间，一名失踪男子的遗体在巴基斯坦一处融化的冰川中被发现，距离他失踪已过去28年。
2024年7月，一名美国登山者的遗体在其秘鲁雪山失踪22年后被发现。此前一年，一名1986年失踪的德国登山者的遗骸在瑞士阿尔卑斯山的一处冰川中被找到。
2017年，意大利山地救援人员在勃朗山南坡的一处冰川上发现了疑似上世纪80年代或90年代失踪的徒步旅行者遗骸。仅几周后，在瑞士阿尔卑斯山发现的一名登山者的遗骸被确认是1971年失踪的英国登山者。
同年，瑞士一处正在萎缩的冰川露出了1942年失踪的一对冻僵夫妇的遗体。
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/capturing-the-melting-of-glaciers-with-data-and-art/
Bodies of climbers who vanished 34 years ago found on melting glacier in Swiss Alps
August 19, 2026 / 7:34 AM EDT / CBS/AFP
The bodies of two Belgian climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps 34 years ago have been found, freed from the melting Trift Glacier, police said Wednesday.
On July 26, a hiker reported finding two bodies on the glacier in southern Switzerland, near the Italian border, the regional police in Wallis canton said in a statement. The bodies were taken to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Wallis Hospital in Sion for identification.
“A direct comparison of DNA profiles has formally established that these are two mountaineers who went missing in the Weissmies region in 1992,” the statement said.
The two Belgian men were 39 and 41 when they disappeared.
The Trift suspension bridge and Trift Glacier in Switzerland are seen in this 2018 file photo. BlueRed/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
Wallis police maintain a list of missing persons dating back to 1925, primarily in high mountains and rivers.
“Due to the retreat of glaciers, the … remains of people who disappeared in the mountains several decades ago are repeatedly revealed,” police said in their statement Wednesday.
Bodies exposed by melting glaciers in recent years
Climate change has accelerated the melting of glaciers, with the retreating ice releasing bodies of climbers it has held for years, often decades.
Last year, the bones of a Swiss mountaineer who disappeared in 1994 were found on a glacier on the Ober Gabelhorn mountain, also in Wallis.
In August 2025, the remains of a British researcher who vanished in 1959 in Antarctica were discovered amid rocks near a receding glacier on King George Island, located off the Antarctic Peninsula. Around the same time, a missing man’s body was discovered on a melting glacier in Pakistan, 28 years after he went missing.
In July 2024, the body of an American mountaineer was found 22 years after he disappeared while scaling a snowy peak in Peru. The year before that, the remains of a German climber who went missing in 1986 were recovered on a glacier in the Swiss Alps.
In 2017, Italian mountain rescue crews recovered the remains of hikers on 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 who went missing in 1971.
That same year, a shrinking glacier in Switzerland revealed the bodies of a frozen couple who went missing in 1942.
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/capturing-the-melting-of-glaciers-with-data-and-art/
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