Posted on 10/21/2005 3:13:19 PM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL
Body Of WWII Airman Removed From Sierra Glacier
POSTED: 11:17 am PDT October 19, 2005 UPDATED: 10:48 am PDT October 20, 2005
FRESNO -- 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.
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It's probably due more to the movement of the glacier. There was a story not long ago about an aircraft spit out by a glacier many miles from where it had crashed. On Everest, there is a recurring body of an explorer, whose name escapes me, that is seen at different times.
Actually if the global warming myth were true, then the glacier he hit would have been steadily receding since the time of the crash. Since that is clearly not the case, then global warming is indeed a myth, and not all the glaciers are receding overall, as claimed by the global warming hysterics. In fact, this incident would tend to suggest that glacier extent is cyclical on observable cycles, which is, in fact, true!
If he were alive today, he would be appalled by the blatant anti-americanism from the MSM and the other major party.
I would say welcome home old timer and sorry about the way we handled things since you left.
He gave all.
Would suggest that they positively identify him, if possible.
Notify any family.
Then bury him close to where he has been all these years.
Full military honors, proper tomestone etc.
Didnt know that but still:
Apparently they found the body in an unstable glacier.
Would be good to find an area on solid ground as close to where the made the find.
Set it up as a small cemetary and bury them all there.
Interesting phrase! Don't know if I've ever seen those two words together like that! ;>)
There really isn't any place up there that you could bury him. There's nothing but rocks and ice. Anyway, it's within a National Park and they probably have rules, ya know.
Rules Shummles.
Somehow I have pictured something like the last scene of the movie "Red Dawn"
If not a cemetary then at least a memorial.
I think he would be mighty proud of our Military, and what they are accomplishing today!
LLS
Your comment reminded me of this:
A New Alpine Melt Theory
By Hilmar Schmundt
The Alpine glaciers are shrinking, that much we know. But new research suggests that in the time of the Roman Empire, they were smaller than today. And 7,000 years ago they probably weren't around at all. A group of climatologists have come up with a controversial new theory on how the Alps must have looked over the ages.
He may not look like a revolutionary, but Ulrich Joerin, a wiry Swiss scientist in his late twenties, is part of a small group of climatologists who are in the process of radically changing the image of the Swiss mountain world. He and a colleague are standing in front of the Tschierva Glacier in Engadin, Switzerland at 2,200 meters (7,217 feet). "A few thousand years ago, there were no glaciers here at all," he says. "Back then we would have been standing in the middle of a forest." He digs into the ground with his mountain boot until something dark appears: an old tree trunk, covered in ice, polished by water and almost black with humidity. "And here is the proof," says Joerin...
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,druck-357366,00.html
Don't know how old you are but I can assure you that as far as I remember and have read, the media has been anti American since the 30s at least.
Yeah, I wasn't sure if that made any sense whatsoever, but I figured I'd go with it.
This is really something. Our paper had pictures of his body yesterday and today. A miracle he was found after all of these years.
That would be George Leigh Mallory, the Brit who said he had to climb Everest "because it's there." An expedition found the body in 1999 and brought it off the mountain. There's some evidence he made it to the summit.
Wikipedia article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Leigh_Mallory
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I'm sure that this man will be identified. He's in the Army---probably wearing dogtags, has his wallet on him and likely has his name stenciled on his clothes. Could even have his logbook with him.
Possibly survived a crash and was trying to walk out. Maybe fell into a crevasse or just plain froze to death or maybe expired after a while from injuries. If he was killed in a crash outright and body expelled then there ought to be an airplane in the general vicinity.
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