Recovered/Located Peru - William Stampfl, US mountaineer missing since 2002, body found July 2024

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The body of missing mountaineer William Stampfl have been found well-preserved at 17,00 feet on Mount Huascaran in Peru. He went missing 2002 in an avalanche while trying to climb the mountain, together with two friends. One, Steve Erskine, was found shortly after the avalanche, while the other, Matthew Richardson, is still missing.
This is only one of several missing mountaineers that have been found after global warming is causing glaciers to melt.

Sorry, one "2" too many in title, he went missing in 2002.
 
“As we got closer that object began to take shape, we could see it was a climber,” Cooper said. “As we got closer and closer, we could tell he had been there for quite some time.”

That hiker was later identified as William Stampfl. He had been in that spot frozen in time for 22 years.

“I noticed right off the bat this climber had a wedding ring on, you could see his ring,” Cooper said. “It hit me … this guy had a family, at least a wife and they were expecting him home and he never came home.”

The hiker’s body was fully intact.
 

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