The frozen bodies of a man and a woman lying next to each other were found perfectly preserved in the ice near a ski lift by a worker at the Glacier 3,000 ski resort. They were wearing clothes dating from the pre-war period, Bernhard Tschannen, director of the resort told Swiss French-language newspaper Le Matin.
20 April 2017, 00:31 GMT
DNA analysis of the bodies and comparison with missing persons records from those times are yet to be carried out. Though their identity is still unconfirmed, the remains are thought to belong to Marcelin Dumoulin, a 40-year-old shoemaker, and his wife Francine, a 37-year-old teacher, the parents of seven children who had gone to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on August 15, 1942.
According to the paper, Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, their youngest daughter who is 79 now, said that she and her siblings never stopped looking for their long-lost parents. Now, after 75 years of waiting, this news was calming to them. "I won't wear black for their funeral," the woman said as quoted by Le Matin. "This is to represent hope, which I never lost."
