The event took place on the 6,757-meter-high Huascarán in the Áncash region. The body was taken to the morgue in the city of Yungay.
The body of a mountaineer USA that disappeared 22 years ago in Huascarán, Peru, it was found mummified with his clothes in good conditionThe man was reported missing in June 2002when I was climbing the snowy mountain of 6,757 meters high.
American William Stampfl, of Slovenian origin, was buried by an avalanche in the mountains of Peru. According to the images released by the police, the man He was wearing his climbing clothes, harness and boots with crampons, all preserved in good condition.
How the mountaineer was found in Peru
According to the authorities on social media, “After an intense search, they located the mummified and dehydrated body in the Huascarán snow-capped mountain“. The discovery was made possible by the deglaciation of the snow-capped mountains as a result of climate change, a phenomenon that affects the White Mountain Range of the Andes Peruvians, who He left the body exposed to the open air.
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According to the police report, rescuers “They located the body at an altitude of 5,200 meters, near field one of the snowy mountain“, an area characterized by cracks and considered dangerous. However, what caught attention was the conditions in which the body was found.
The truth is that the extreme cold conditions of the snowy mountain, which can reach 19° below zero At night, they would have allowed the corpse to be found in good condition after 22 years.
For their part, the rescuers identified who the body belonged to thanks to the fact that they found Stampfl’s American passport among his clothes, who He was 59 years old at the time of the accident.
Peru: the discovery of another corpse in the Cashan
In June, too The body of another mountaineer who suffered an accident while trying to climb the Cashan snow-capped mountain was foundat an altitude of 5,716 metres. This time, the man was an Italian citizen.
The Cordillera Blanca, as the mountain range in the northeast of the country is known, Peruwhich is home to snow-capped mountains such as Huascarán and Cashan, It is a tourist area frequented by climbers of all kinds.
Source: Ambito
