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The body of a British climber who died on Mont Blanc 17 years ago has finally emerged from a melting glacier. Mike Seavers, then 31, whose parents live near Stansted, died as did three other members of his group... The two bodies were found but Mr Seavers was missing until now.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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first, there were 4 people who died, two were found right away and two were found recently.
in the article http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2316409,00.html it says that the glacier they were preserved in melted. Does this mean 17 years ago (in febuary) the glacier was the same size as the melted one is today in august? Does this support or go against global warming or have I and the article missed something where the bodies sink over time?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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daehwons, usually bodies fall into crevasses and are transported down the mountain within the glacier over many years, eventually they appear at the end of the glacier or slightly higher up as the glacier melts
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| The body of a British climber who died on Mount Blanc 17 years ago ... |
Is this, by any chance, related to the well-known mountain Mont Blanc?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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daehwons, Glaciers move a hell of a lot, they flow like a very slow river.
I don't know the exact figures but I gues this one kept moving and eventually spat the body out of the bottom.
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Look up the story of the Avro Lancastrian airliner "Stardust". It flew into a mountain in South America and vanished for 50 years. What happenned was that it flew into a glacier and snow avalanched over the crash site so rescuers couldn't even find it, let alone look for survivors. It bacame part of the glacier and emerged many years later piece by piece as it melted at the bottom of the valley. If a whole aircraft can go this way, whaty chance of finding 1 body.
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FenlandSkier, I was a documentary on that flight and the resultant disappearance and "reappearance" a couple of years ago - fascinating story. From what I recall, didn't the search focus on the wrong area? I believe the aircraft deviated quite substantially from it's intended flight path.
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I forget the exact details but they went high to miss the mountains and entered the jet stream. Because the navigation method basically said fly for an hour at X mph and descend they came down short due to the unexpected headwind. The searchers were looking in the wrong place as they were looking where they should have been rather than where they were.
I think the docu was one on extreme weather, it had Stardust, the WWII Japanese balloon bombs and B-29s flying backwards in it.
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About 10 years ago, the Frogs made a film about that Indian Constelation wreck, something about salavaging a rajahs jewels from the wreck stuck in a glacier 
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