Mummified remains found on Andes mountain confirmed as climber, 20, who died in 1981, Marta Emilia Altamirano,

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Mummified remains found on Andes mountain confirmed as climber who died in 1981

20-year-old Patty died after slipping on ice during an expedition in the Andes in 1981, multiple search efforts failed to locate her body but now her remains have been found

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The mummified remains of a woman discovered on a mountain in the Andes have been identified as a climber whose body disappeared 41 years ago.

Marta Emilia Altamirano, better known as Patty, tragically died during an expedition in the Andes in March 1981.

The 20-year-old woman had slipped on ice at an altitude of around 5,000 metres, causing her to fall hundreds of metres to her death — according to her sister who had accompanied her.

Since then, at least four expeditions have taken place over the years in an effort to locate Patty's body, but all had failed to find her.

Eventually, the search was dropped and her disappearance became a legend in the nearby mountain village of Barreal in Argentina’s San Juan province.

But on January 28 this year a body was found on the Cerro Mercedario, the highest peak of the Cordillera de la Ramada range and the eighth-highest mountain in the Andes.

It was discovered at an altitude of around 5,000 metres and shortly after was confirmed to have been a woman aged between 18 and 30 years.

 

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Finally,her family can put her to rest.It must have been very difficult for her sister,to see her fallen to her death.