Climate change is melting glaciers and exposing the corpses of long-lost climbers on mountain peaks in Nepal, Switzerland and Peru.
In late June, as a group of mountaineers descended a treacherous glacier high in the Peruvian Andes, they spotted a dark, out-of-place lump resting on the blinding white snow. When they approached, they realized it wasn’t a rock, as they had initially assumed. It was a corpse. When they got a little closer, they could tell from the out-of-date clothes and the condition of the skin that the dead man had been there for a very long time.
Nevertheless, Cooper’s team decided to give their planned route a try. The five days they spent on the glaciers were tense, Cooper said, an up-close look at the chaos warmer-than-expected temperatures can cause. “You’re just hearing avalanches, you’re hearing rock fall, you’re hearing ice fall all around you,” Cooper said. “I’ve never been on a mountain that was so active.” Eventually, the guides decided not to push for the summit, Cooper said.
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