Bodies of hikers who disappeared 3 decades ago in the Swiss Alps discovered after glacier melts

A DNA analysis revealed the bodies belonged to two mountaineers who were reported missing in the Weissmies mountain region in 1992, police said.

Tracey Smith, 57, vanished on July 24 after she was sighted leaving her home in Stokesley, North Yorkshire, driving a black Fiat Panda.

THE BODIES of two missing climbers have been found 34 years after they disappeared in the Swiss Alps. The terrifying discovery was made by a hiker, who reported finding the two bodies on the Trift Glacier, a fast-melting mass of ice in southern Switzerland. Following a recovery operation, the bodies were taken for iden

Wallis police keep records of people reported missing since 1925, mostly in mountainous areas and rivers.

The bodies of two climbers who disappeared in the Swiss Alps in 1992 have been found, freed from a melting glacier, police said.

The bodies of two Belgian mountaineers, aged 39 and 41 when they went missing in 1992, have been discovered in the melting Trift Glacier in Switzerland. The remains were discovered on July 26 in the municipality of Saas-Grund, canton Valais. A recovery operation was organised and the bodies were taken to the Institute