Posted on 12/20/2025 9:01:53 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The body of a man missing for 28 years has been found in a melting glacier in Pakistan's remote and mountainous Kohistan region.
A shepherd stumbled upon the body, which was remarkably well-preserved, with its clothing intact, in the so-called Lady Valley in the country's east...
"What I saw was unbelievable," the shepherd who found the body, Omar Khan, told BBC Urdu. "The body was intact. The clothes were not even torn."
As soon as police confirmed that it was Naseeruddin, locals began offering more information, Mr Khan added.
Naseeruddin had a wife and two children. He was travelling with his brother, Kathiruddin, on horseback on the day he went missing. Police said a family feud had forced the two men to leave their home.
Kathiruddin told BBC Urdu that they had arrived in the valley that morning, and sometime around afternoon, his brother stepped into a cave. When he did not return, Kathiruddin says he looked for him inside the cave - and went and got help from others in the area to search further. But they never found him.
When a human body falls into a glacier, the extreme cold freezes it fast, preventing decomposition, said Prof Muhammad Bilal, head of the Department of Environment at Comsats University Islamabad.
The body is then mummified due to a lack of moisture and oxygen in the glacier.
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He might get more sympathy if he had been. People are likely going to mourn the loss of the glacier more than his death.
How many of those who fraudulently collected it, from whom it was recovered are going to prison? < /sarc >
Cold. The people and the grandma.
It’s still the fastest way to get her across the country to the mortuary nearest where her burial will take place. Or maybe they won’t use a mortuary, because they planned to keep collecting her Social Security benefits.
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