Curse of the glacier mummy

Trevor @ Monday October 18th 2004 14:14

Sad and strange: Helmut Simon, the guy who, with his wife, found Ötzi, the prehistoric iceman, has disappeared while walking at somewhere in the region of 2,400m. Rescue teams have given up hope of finding him alive, and Margaret Marks tells me visitors to Der Standard are already speculating (now I scroll down, I can see it myself) whether it will take another 5,000 years for him to turn up. I can think of many worse ways to go.


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