Secrets that glaciers have kept for decades Alps open up because of her changing of the climate. This is exactly what happened in recent weeks, when two groups of climbers found human skeletons in the Swiss mountains, as well as the wreckage of a plane that mysteriously disappeared half a century ago. Everything would have remained hidden if the climate crisis had not contributed to the melting of glaciers.

Two French climbers climbing the Cessin glacier in the Valais canton in southern Switzerland saw human skeletons in front of them near an old trail that is no longer in use. As Dario Adenmaten, caretaker of the Britannia shelter, which is a starting point for climbers, points out, the skeletons belong to people who died in the 1970s or 1980s.

A few days earlier, another skeleton was found near the Stoktsi glacier, near Zermatt, northwest of the Matterhorn. In both cases, the Swiss police are trying to identify the dead through DNA testing.

A danger signal for Antarctica, with a visible possibility of sea level rise by 52 meters.

After all, the authorities of the Alps compiled a list of 300 people missing in the area from 1925 to the present day, and no one has ever learned the slightest about their fate. Among them is billionaire Karl Erivan Haub, holder of German, Russian and American citizenship, who disappeared in Zermatt on April 7, 2018. The German media believe that the skeleton found in recent days belongs to the oligarch. However, one of the climbers who noticed him noted that the man they found was dressed in neon-colored clothing, which dates back to the 1980s.

Lost since 1968

In addition, in the first week of August, on the Aletsch Glacier, near the top of the Jungfrau, the wreckage of a plane that had crashed in June 1968 was spotted by a mountain guide. “At first I thought I was seeing two backpacks,” says Dominik. Nelen. “When I approached them, I realized that they were the wreckage of a small Piper Cherokee aircraft that crashed in the area on June 30, 1968 and was transporting a teacher, a senior doctor and his son from Zurich. By that time, their bodies had been found, but the whereabouts of the aircraft had never been found.”

In another development, scientists are sounding the alarm about the melting of glaciers in East Antarctica, the likelihood of which will mean a rise in sea water levels of 52 meters. Experts point out that if global warming exceeds 2 degrees Celsius compared to levels before the industrial revolution, then a worst-case scenario of a catastrophe will occur. Glaciers in East Antarctica are already starting to show signs of how vulnerable they are.