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Posted: 10/24/2004 12:07:00 AM EDT
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&u=/nm/austria_iceman_dc
Finder of 'Iceman' Found Dead in Austrian Alps

Sat Oct 23,11:05 AM ET

VIENNA (Reuters) - The man who 13 years ago discovered the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier was found dead in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, eight days after he went missing, rescue authorities said.

Helmut Simon, the German who found the 5,300-year-old mummified body while hiking on the border of Austria and Italy in 1991, disappeared on Oct. 15 after setting off alone on an expedition in the Bad Hofgastein region in southwestern Austria.

"He was found at an altitude of around 2,200 meters (7,220 ft), apparently having fallen around 100 meters," a member of the Bad Hofgastein mountain rescue team told Reuters.

Rescue officials found and recovered the body of the experienced 67-year-old mountaineer after a local hunter notified them of a mysterious red spot high up on the 2,300-meter Gaiskarkogel mountain.

Simon, 67, and his wife, Erika, from Nuremberg in Germany found the neolithic iceman on the 3,000-meter (9,000-feet) high Similaun glacier in the Tyrolean Oetz Valley. The mummy was named "Oetzi" after the valley.

Simon's widow requested that he be buried in a crevasse for future generations to find.

Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:49:14 AM EDT
[#1]
He screwed up, and didn't have a hiking partner. Basic rule.

Link Posted: 10/24/2004 5:50:30 AM EDT
[#2]
They should have left him there so some scientist in the future could find him.....
Link Posted: 10/24/2004 6:03:48 AM EDT
[#3]
they act like 7200 feet is high.  My home town was at like 7500.

Link Posted: 10/24/2004 9:09:11 AM EDT
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Quoted:
They should have left him there so some scientist in the future could find him.....
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