As climate change warms the Earth and melts snow, various hidden objects will come to light. Among those will be horrible things:
explorers and scientists are stumbling upon mountainside plane wrecks, finding mummified Incan children, and discovering a frozen graveyard of ancient marine reptiles once hidden under a Chilean glacier.
For example,in Canada,
Hikers in Canada’s Columbia Icefields in 2010 came across the body of an American,William Holland, 38, who fell off a precipice and was subsequently buried by an avalanche in 1989. His body was so well-preserved that his spiked boots were still on his feet and his climbing rope was still coiled around his body.
And in Mexico,
a climbing party circled the jagged crater atop Orizaba.
“One of them slipped, and they later said he skidded down and came to a stop. When he got up, he saw a head poking out of the snow,” said Hilario Aguilar Aguilar, a veteran climber.
It was a mummified climber, a member of a Mexican expedition hit by an avalanche on Nov. 2, 1959. Some climbers fell near the Chimicheco Ridge, their bodies frozen in an icy time machine, only to re-emerge 56 years later.
There's more, of course:
Hearing of the macabre discovery, prosecutors dispatched Aguilar and other climbers March 4 to document the scene of death.
“Upon clearing away some snow so that I could take some photographs, I saw another hand. Suddenly, there were one, two, three hands. It didn’t seem possible. Digging a little more, we discovered that there was another body,” Aguilar said.
The world becomes more Gothic every day. Infocult merely perceives and records.
(thanks to Chris Worden)
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