Switzerland’s melting glaciers reveal human remains and plane wreckage

Record high temperatures in the Alps this summer have led to the discovery of two bodies and an aircraft that crashed in 1968

Soaring temperatures are prompting Switzerland's melting glaciers to reveal their secrets, with hikers this summer chancing upon two sets of unidentified human remains and a plane wreckage lost for more than half a century.

Two French alpinists found human bones last Wednesday while scaling the Chessjen glacier in the southern canton of Valais, a police spokesperson confirmed on Monday. The skeleton was airlifted from the glacier by helicopter on the same day.