Bones found in the Unterberg

Suddeutsche.de ^ | 15 November 2014 | Sarah Cannings

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"I think this is now no chamois"

Students see the Unterberg decades-old skeletal remains of a man. He could have been one of the first skiers. Investigators have even been possible clues to the identity of the dead.

By Sarah Cannings

Actually, the trip would have in the Unterberg just an exercise should be for students in Tübingen Cave AG, guided by the Salzburg cavers Georg Zagler. "I have them before that said that some people go missing in the lower mountain, and that you can always find bones of animals, so that they are not intended to scare," says Zagler, the research in the country club for caving to karst water. But then the young researchers found an unusual number of bones in 250 meters depth, as they -Cave rappelled in the shaft of the "Therion Horrer" two weeks ago - at a level close to the point where the seriously injured in the summer of German cave explorer Johann Westhauser in the Riesending cave was stuck.

"When we discovered the remains of shoes, a student said: George, I think this is now no chamois," says Zagler. After the students should learn in the bay, how to attach ropes and stone chips removed, parts of the skull and a thigh bone discovered, it became clear that there a person died decades ago, which was probably fallen while skiing in the bay.

As said Manfred Schwaiger of the Alpine police the SZ, it could be a treasure that must be dated back in the early days of skiing. "From the textile stuff is get nothing, but the Wooden skis without metal edges could in the first generation of skiing at all fit," he says. So in the time shortly after 1900. skiing has on the lower mountain, which partly belongs to Bavaria and partly to Austria, a long tradition: When there were no lifts or touring, you walked up and then went wild from - not far away from entry-level to "Therion Horrer" -Cave which lies at 1600 meters on the Austrian side. "Every hole is a danger"

Earlier this week, together with Georg Schwaiger barg Zagler, another caver and the Bavarian cave and mountain rescuers Bauhofer Stefan, who was also involved in West Hauser's rescue in the summer, the skeletal remains. Now the Salzburg court medicine to determine how old the bones. The police are trying to figure out who it could be at the Fund. "This is a challenge for the detectives," says Schwaiger. A missing persons database will only since the mid-60s, it is still unclear belonged to which nationality of skiers.

But the opinion of the police that a DNA comparison with people of that time was hardly possible, could have already been found to be premature: On Thursday Georg Zagler got the call of an old lady who identified herself as a niece of a man who after World War II at the lower mountain disappeared. Would that be a trace, the Fund would be only about 70 years old - but there were still relatives. The brother of the missing person is still alive. To this day people disappear at the Unterberg untraceable because they plunge into columns and shafts. "Every hole is a danger," says Zagler.

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The story was translated via Google.

One second you're skiing and then you fall into a cave. Winter coming up, let's be careful out there in the snow.

[Cowman]

Did they find an ancient VW with a Thule roof rack as well?

[rochester_veteran]

The story was translated via Google.

I could tell! LOL! Hope they find out who it is as it will bring closure to the family.

[mikrofon]

"By George, I think this is now no chamois!"

("Rex - ths isn't 'Doolittle'...")

[PlateOfShrimp]

“I think this is now no chamois”

Kind of describes the current administration. Maybe this should make it into the freeper lexicon, alongside “Someone set up us the bomb” and “Stune my beeber”.

[ExCTCitizen]

Was Hillary over there recently with a victim er I meant a host?

[rabidralph]

For it now be a shamwow.

[ExCTCitizen]

Lol....just like the VW in Sleeper...