A melting glacier in the Swiss Alps has revealed the remains of two Belgian mountaineers who went missing more than three decades ago, offering their families long-awaited closure. The discovery highlights how retreating glaciers, driven by rising temperatures, are increasingly exposing bodies and belongings long buried in ice, a phenomenon that has become more common across the Alps in recent years.

A hiker spotted the remains on the Trift Glacier on 26 July after melting ice exposed them, according to police in Switzerland's Valais canton. Authorities recovered the remains and sent them to a forensic medicine institute at a hospital in Sion for identification, with the men believed to have vanished in 1992.