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Man, 86, Reunited with Backpack 60 Years After Abandoning It During Hiking Accident

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By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — An 86-year-old Austrian man has been reunited with climbing equipment he was forced to abandon in a glacier crevasse more than six decades ago, after melting ice brought the long-lost belongings back to the surface. A hiker discovered the backpack on the Sulztalferner glacier in Austria’s western Tyrol region last month, at nearly 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) above sea level, according to Austrian police. Inside was a c…

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Man, 86, reunited with backpack 60 years after abandoning it during hiking accident

An 86-year-old Austrian man has been reunited with climbing equipment he was forced to abandon in a glacier crevasse more than six decades ago, after melting ice brought the long-lost belongings back to the surface.

3 hours ago·Atlanta, United States

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Glacier Returns Lost Item to Mountaineer After More than 60 Years

Among the items found were an ice axe, a camera, and the pipe of a mountaineer who had abandoned his backpack after falling into a crevasse in 1963.

4 hours ago·Ljubljana, Slovenia

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Backpack Found on Glaciers in Tyrol After 63 Years

NEW TIFT IN STUBAITAL. Goodbye after 63 years: A mountain guide found a backpack on the Tyrolean glacier Sulztalferner in the Stubai Alps (district of Innsbruck-Land) at an altitude of about 2,955 meters.

3 hours ago·Linz, Austria

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