GENEVA, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) -- For the second time within a week, the remains of a person buried for decades in Alpine ice has been found in Switzerland.
This time it was a German hiker who died 30 years ago on his way up a mountain.
Police said Wednesday that climbers found the remains of the hiker "partially imprisoned in the ice" on the mountain a week ago, Swiss News Agency reported.
The body was discovered near Saas-Grund in the German-speaking part of Switzerland by two climbers who had set off up the 4,010-metre Lagginhorn, said police in the Swiss canton of Valais.
The climbers discovered the remains at a spot called the Lagginjoch at 3,499 meters, Swiss national broadcaster Swissinfo reported on its website.
The following day, the remains were flown by helicopter to the University of Bern, where the victim was formally identified as a German citizen, born in 1943, who went missing on Aug. 11, 1987.
Two weeks ago, the mummified bodies of a Swiss couple who disappeared 75 years ago were found near a ski resort in the Alps.
The frozen corpses of Marceline and Francine Dumoulin were found lying near each other in the receding Tsanfleuron glacier not far from the famed Gstaad resort.
