2023-07-03 16:25:29
On the Schlatenkees, a glacier in the Venice Group, some body parts and bones were discovered in the area of the Neue Prager Hütte at 2,796 meters in the municipality of Matrei in Osttirol. According to previous assessments, the body parts should have been up there for “several decades”, said a spokesman for the Tyrolean police to the APA on Monday. The bones, which were apparently apert, were found by an alpinist last Friday.
You have now been transferred to Innsbruck, where a DNA test is to be carried out at the forensic medicine department. One cannot say more for the time being, not even whether the dead person was a ski tourer. The result of the DNA test has to be awaited. This might take a long time, the police spokesman said. The glacier lies in the core zone of the Hohe Tauern National Park, east of the Großvenediger.
PICTURED: SN/CHRISTIAN SPRENGER
The Schlatenkees on August 16, 2007 – at that time the ice cover was much thicker.
Another body found on the Schlatenkees
The body parts that have now been discovered are not the first gruesome discovery on the disappearing Schlatenkees. A report by the Austria Press Agency of August 11, 2011 states:
An alpinist made a gruesome discovery in the Venice Group in East Tyrol. The man discovered skeletal parts of a human and a nailed mountain boot during a mountain tour on the edge of a glacier. According to the police, the glacier corpse, which was recovered by officials on Thursday, is likely to be a local who has been missing since 1957. The public prosecutor’s office ordered an autopsy of the body parts to determine the exact identity. The East Tyrolean had climbed the glacier path to the Schlatenkees together with an acquaintance from Innergschlöss in the municipality of Matrei (district of Lienz). Below the crystal wall at an altitude of 2,350 meters on the left edge of a glacier tongue of the Schlatenkees he came across the bones. After the man had filed a complaint, police officers flew to the site in a helicopter on Thursday and secured two thigh bones, a lower leg bone and two pelvic bones. In the course of the investigation, questioning older mountain rescue workers and mountain guides revealed that only one man from Matrei, born in 1934, was considered missing in this area. The local had carried out a reconnaissance tour in the area of the crystal wall on August 25, 1957 and has been missing ever since. Despite weeks of searching by mountain rescuers and alpine police officers, the body might not be found. In addition, according to the police, a report written at the time largely corresponds to the descriptions of the mountain guides.
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