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The finding surprised those involved.
The body of a man who had spent 28 years appeared in a glacier that is melting in Kohistan, a remote mountainous area of Pakistan.
It was a shepherd who found the body that was very well preserved, with his clothes intact in the area known as Valle de la Dama, in eastern Pakistan.
Together with the body, an identification document was found with the name of Naseeruddin, which allowed the police to identify it as that of a man who disappeared in the area in 1997 after falling into a glacier crack during a snowstorm.
Snow rainfall in the region has been reduced in recent years, which has left the glaciers most exposed to sunlight and caused that melt faster. Experts point out that the discovery of the body shows that climate change has accelerated the thaw of glaciers.
The pastor who found the body, Omar Khan, told BBC Urdu: “What I saw was incredible. The body was intact. They had not even broken the clothes.”
As soon as the police confirmed that it was Naseruddin, the locals began to provide additional information, Khan said.
The man had a wife and two children. He traveled with his brother Kathiruddin on a horse when he disappeared. Police reported that the two men left their home after a family dispute.
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Mummification
Kathiruddin told BBC Urdu that they had arrived in the valley that morning and near noon his brother entered a cave.
When he saw that his brother did not return, he looked inside the cave without success, and then asked for help in the surroundings to expand the search. But they never found Naseruddin.
As explained by Professor Muhammad Bilal, head of the Department of Environment of the Comsats University of Islamabad, when a human body falls into a glacier, the extreme cold freezes it quickly.
The lack of oxygen combined with moisture can cause it to be mummified rapidly.
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