Posted on 07/18/2017 12:07:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin
he daughter of a couple who disappeared in the Swiss Alps more than 70 years ago has said the discovery of two bodies emerging from a melting glacier has brought her a "deep sense of calm" after so long without an answer.
Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, now 79, told the Le Matin newspaper of Lausanne, Switzerland, that she and her siblings "spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day."
Udry-Dumoulin is the youngest of seven children born to Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin. The couple went to milk their cows on a meadow above their home in Switzerland's Valais canton on August 15, 1942, according to the Reuters news agency, and never came home.
Local rescue teams had spent more than two months searching crevasses before giving up, The Associated Press reports.
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"The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of World War Two," Glacier 3000 director Bernhard Tschannen told local media, according to Reuters. "They were perfectly preserved in the glacier and their belongings were intact."
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...UNLESS...it is naked Vaseline Twister.
Lol
They took a bottle of wine and went on a glacier to “milk their cows”
Like ‘watching the submarine races’
LOL
Looks like they wedged into the crevasse in a contorted position. If he or she wasn’t killed in the fall then their last hours must have been excruciating.
Maybe they were sitting there quietly, milking cows and enjoying some vino - when the glacier suddenly snuck up and swallowed them by surprise.
Glacial movement could also have been a factor.
Definitely have that Otzi the Austrian Ice Man look. Well, except for the bottle of wine.
Typical media approach - leave out the facts that enable one to make sense of the report. My guess is that they were crossing the glacier to milk the cows which were likely grazing uphill and on the other side of the ice, falling into the crevice and expiring. Summer pasture in that part of the world is normally up the mountain from the residence.
-PJ
Rush said today, "many more people are killed by cold than heat."
At least for these two people, Rush is right.
A passenger plane crashed in The Andes and showed up,in a glacier,fifty five years later.
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More proof of climate change....
One of their children (if not more) is alive. Haunting story.
They should take these folks and compare them to the modern person and see how they fair against each other. I think the people from before the 50s look much better than modern people, on a whole.
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