Body parts found after “a few decades” on East Tyrolean glacier

According to previous assessments, the body parts were likely to have been up there for “several decades”, said a spokesman for the Tyrolean police to the APA on Monday. The bones, which were apparently apert, were found by an alpinist last Friday.

You have now been transferred to Innsbruck, where a DNA test is to be carried out at the forensic medicine department. One cannot say more for the time being, not even whether the dead person was a ski tourer. The result of the DNA test has to be awaited. This could take a long time, the police spokesman said. The glacier lies in the core zone of the Hohe Tauern National Park, east of the Großvenediger.

Incidentally, a similar find on the Schlatenkees became known in 2011. At that time, an alpinist found parts of a human skeleton and a nailed mountain boot on the edge of the glacier. Police officers who were flown to the site by helicopter also found two thigh bones, one lower leg bone and two pelvic bones a short time later below the crystal wall at an altitude of 2,350 meters. These probably belonged to a local who had been missing there since 1957.