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An Australian scientist working to complete a book on the secrets of 'Oetzi', the 5300-year-old man found on a glacier on the Austrian-Italian border in 1991, has been found dead.
His death brings the number of researchers to have died since being in close contact with 'Oetzi' to seven.
This report from The Australian.
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Rumours of a Tutankhamen-style curse started a year ago when the man who discovered the mummy, Helmut Simon, 67, fell to his death during a freak blizzard while hiking near the spot where he found Oetzi protruding from the ice.
Within an hour of Mr Simon's funeral, the head of the mountain rescue team sent to find him, Dieter Warnecke, 45, died of a heart attack. |
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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To play safe can any snowhead pin point the skiing resort nearest to 'Oetzi' so that we could stay away from it?
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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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Good question! I know it's in the Oeztal area, so I guess Soelden and Obergurgl are not too far away, but as to the very closest ski resort ... I can't find a map of his location where found by Helmut Simon. Here he is now, safely tucked up in his own ice box:
Photo: South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology, Bolzano, Italy
"The Iceman is preserved in his own specially designed cold storage chamber. The block consists of two identical cold chambers with independent refrigeration systems. The mummy is kept in one of them, at a temperature of -6° C and relative air humidity of 98%. An examination room and a decontamination room precede the chambers. Visitors can view the mummy through a small window."
http://www.archaeologiemuseum.it/f01_uk.html
Last edited by Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see? on Thu 3-11-05 17:14; edited 1 time in total
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Obergurgl, but it's too good to stay away from on the basis of superstitious mumbo jumbo.
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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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Welll, since the mummy is in Bolzano, Italy, you'd better check the maps, all of the Dolomites, Madonna di Campiglio, Sciliar, and many, many other resorts are nearer to the mummy than any of the Austrian one.
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I visited Obergurgl/Hochgurgl many times in my youth, Indeed I am contemplating re-visiting again soon.
All this talk of curses and suspicious deaths is a load of rubbish and hasn't afffff
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Shite! I have booked to go to Sella Ronda the coming March.
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It's actually Val Senales - you can skin to the site of Otzi's discovery in a two or three hours, if memory serves.
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I could mention a few similar situations, for one, the Egyptian Pyramids curse..... every last man, woman, child, insect, bacteria, cell involved in their construction is dead..... definite curse 
So be warned, if you build an egyptian pyramid, you will die.
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