The remains had clearly been there for some time, police said.
A mountain guide has found the remains high in the Austrian Alps of a man believed to have died in an accident on a glacier 22 years ago, police said this week.
The body was found last Friday on the Schlatenkees glacier in the Hohe Tauern national park in eastern Tyrol province of Austria, near the Italian border and at an altitude of about 2900 metres, police said in a statement.A body has been found on the Schlatenkees Glacier, Austria.A few metres below the body, rescuers found a backpack containing cash, a bank card and a driving licence.
Police determined that the remains appear to be those of an Austrian man who was 37 at the time and is believed to have died in 2001.Wagner boss presumed dead after Russia plane crash A DNA comparison is being carried out to confirm the man's identity. The result is expected in a few weeks. As glaciers increasingly melt and recede, which many scientists blame on global warming, there has been an increase in discoveries of the remains of hikers, skiers and other Alpinists who went missing decades ago.India becomes the fourth country ever to land a spacecraft on the moonIn neighbouring Switzerland, police said last month that DNA tests confirmed that a body found on a glacier near the Matterhorn was that of a German mountaineer who disappeared in 1986.
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