Hiker reunited with backpack 60 years after he fell into a glacier in Austria
Bag, camera and pipe belonging to 86-year-old are latest relics uncovered as glaciers melt due to global heating
TL;DR
- An 86-year-old mountaineer's backpack and equipment, lost over 60 years ago, were recovered from a melting glacier in Austria.
- Items found include an ice axe, camera, and a pipe from the 1950s or 1960s.
- The man lost his backpack in August 1963 after falling into a crevasse on the Sulztalferner glacier.
- The discovery is part of a trend of relics and remains emerging from melting glaciers, attributed to human-caused global heating.
- Other notable discoveries from melting glaciers include a barracks from WWI and the 5,300-year-old mummy 'Ötzi the Iceman'.