Melting Glaciers Reveal Their Bodies

6th June 2025

As glaciers in the Alps retreat due to climate change the bodies of missing skiers, climbers and hikers are being found.

The body of a hiker was found 37 years after the person went missing.

These discoveries highlight the rapid pace of climate change, with alpine glaciers losing over half their ice since the 1930s.

See here for a full and in-depth story on the BBC.

And here for some past PlanetSKI articles:

• Melting ice in Norway reveals historical artefacts
• Melting Austrian glaciers reveal body on missing skier
• Melting glacier above Zermatt reveals body of another missing person
• Melting Swiss glacier reveals human remains
• Newspapers from crashed plane revealed by melting glacier

Franz Josef glacier, New Zealand. Image © PlanetSKI