Earlier this week, a couple of hikers on Mt. Mendel (in the Kings Canyon area of the Sierra Nevadas) found the frozen body of a soldier in the ice just below the peak. Mt. Mendel is the righthand peak in the photo; click on it for a larger view. From the San Jose Mercury-News:
A glacier-encased body believed to be a World War II airman who crashed into the Sierra Nevada in 1942 was flown off the mountain and into a Fresno laboratory for identification, the county's deputy coroner said Thursday.
Blustery conditions kept rangers at Kings Canyon National Park from reaching the frozen remains for two days after two ice climbers reported last weekend they had seen a man's head, shoulder and arm protruding from the thick ice. About 80 percent of the body was buried in the glacier on the side of the 13,710-foot Mount Mendel. The remote wilderness area can only be reached by hiking two or three days, or by helicopter when the weather allows, rangers said.
More information on this unusual event here, here, and here.
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