Matthias Huss, a glaciologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and director of GLAMOS, the Swiss Glaciological Monitoring Network, stands beside an 8-meter-high marker representing the annual ice melt on the tongue of the Rhone Glacier during a visit to the glacier in the Alps of the canton of Valais, Switzerland, in July. A melting glacier in another area of Valais revealed the bodies to two Belgian hikers who went missing in 1992. File Photo by Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA
Aug. 20 (UPI) -- The remains of two Belgian hikers who went missing in 1992 were found in the area a melting glacier in Switzerland.
The bodies of the two men, who were 39 and 41 years old when they disappeared, were found on the Trift Glacier, police said Wednesday.
A hiker discovered the bodies on July 26 in the Valais canton in the Swiss Alps near the border with Italy.
The bodies were sent to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Valais Hospital in Sion, Switzerland, for identification.
