Bodies of two mountaineers discovered after Swiss glacier melts - BBC News

Officials say the bodies of the two Belgians, who went missing in 1992, were discovered after the Trift Glacier receded.

Image source, Universal Images Group via Getty ImagesImage caption, Further melting of the Trift Glacier in the Swiss Alps exposed the bodies of the two men

The bodies of two Belgian men who went missing in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been discovered after being exposed by the melting of a glacier, police have said.

A hiker discovered the bodies on 26 July on the Trift Glacier, south of the Swiss city of Lucerne, officials said.

DNA analysis later confirmed them to be those of two mountaineers who went missing 34 years ago near the Weissmies mountain, police said. They were aged 39 and 41 at the time of their disappearance.

Many scientists attribute a rapid retreat in Switzerland's glaciers - which shrunk by a quarter in the decade to 2025, according to Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos) - to climate change.