Peru: After 22 years, the frozen body of the American mountaineer was found with his passport

An American Mountaineer’s Freeze The remains They met 22 years later, while climbing a snow-capped peak in Peru missing were done

William Stumpfel, 59, went missing in June 2002 when his climbing team was crushed by an avalanche on the 22,000-foot Huaskarn mountain in Yungae province.

Stompfel’s body, clothes, mountaineering equipment and passport were all found safe thanks to the extremely low temperatures. The frozen documents allowed the police to identify his body.

Peruvian police told news agency AFP that the mountaineer’s body was discovered following snow melted on the Cordillera Blanca mountain range in the Andes.

Scientists at a government agency that studies glaciers have discovered that Peru has lost more than half of its glaciers in the past six decades, and 175 glaciers have disappeared completely between 2016 and 2020 due to the climate crisis.

This section contains related reference points (Related Nodes field).

The World Meteorological Organization said last year that the last decade was the warmest on record. The warming caused polar and mountain ice to melt and sea levels to rise faster than in the 20th century. The report said that glaciers are melting at a rate of one meter per year, while the continent of Antarctica’s ice has decreased by regarding 75% between 2011 and 2020 compared to 2001-2010.

Jesus Gomez, director of research on glaciers at the National Institute for Research on Glaciers and Mountain Ecosystems, told the Associated Press that glaciers are melting faster due to global warming. This is happening more rapidly in warmer regions.

Stompfel is another tourist whose mummified body has been found in the Andes mountain range of South America. The remains of a woman mountaineer who went missing 41 years ago in the mountain range were found last year. Marta Amelia Altamirano, known as Patty, died in March 1981 during a campaign.

According to the sister of the female climber who was with her, her foot slipped on the snow at an altitude of regarding 5,000 meters and she fell down hundreds of meters and lost her life. His body was found buried in the glacier and authorities had to break the ice to extricate him.