Posted on 10/18/2004 10:22:51 AM PDT by 11th_VA
VIENNA (Reuters) - The man who 13 years ago found the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier has disappeared in the snow-covered Alps with little hope of being found.
A member of the mountain rescue team at Bad Hofgastein in Austria told Reuters on Monday that Helmut Simon, the German man who found the 5,300-year-old mummified body while hiking on the border of Austria and Italy in 1991 has been missing for three days.
"There's a lot of snow up there," the rescuer, who did not want to be named, said about the 2,467-metre (8,000-ft) Garmskarkogel mountain in the Salzburg region, where Simon vanished. "We've looked everywhere. He was hiking alone."
"We employed 93 men and search dogs in the search but we didn't find him," he said, adding that the team had suspended the rescue mission.
Simon, 67, and his wife, Erika, from Nuremberg in Germany found the neolithic iceman in September 1991 on the 3,000-metre (9,000-feet) high Similaun glacier in the Tyrolean Oetz Valley. The mummy was named "Oetzi" after the valley.
The rescuer said Simon probably did not have a tent with him and there were no signs he had been at any of the permanent huts on the mountain.
"You can imagine that the chances of survival outside in the snow are quite slim," the rescuer said.
The Alps giveth, and the Alps taketh away.
oops--didn't see your post (great minds think alike)
Probably the best known one would be Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", loosely based on his own Kerry-like brief service (with a real wound that did put him in the hospital). However, my favorites from that sector are several novels by John Biggin.
One title is something like "The Emperor's Colored Coat", can't remember the others. The central character is an old Austro-Hungarian officer, 100+ years old, reminiscing about his wartime exploits as a submarine officer and later an aviator in the Italian theater. Subtle humor along with a great deal of trivial knowledge about military affairs of an empire with eleven different languages in use.
Probably the best known one would be Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms", loosely based on his own Kerry-like brief service (with a real wound that did put him in the hospital). However, my favorites from that sector are several novels by John Biggin.
One title is something like "The Emperor's Colored Coat", can't remember the others. The central character is an old Austro-Hungarian officer, 100+ years old, reminiscing about his wartime exploits as a submarine officer and later an aviator in the Italian theater. Subtle humor along with a great deal of trivial knowledge about military affairs of an empire with eleven different languages in use.
Karma, Neh?
That would be John Biggins, not Biggin, and the first of the series is "A Sailor of Austria".
Sounds like X-Files. Perhaps the guy found his future self in the past. He is/was the Iceman! Time travel!
Allah be praised. Thanks!
In about 5,300 years he'll turn up, and be studied as a "Prehistoric" man...
Irony can be, well, Ironic at times.
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