ABSTRACT
In September 1991, German mountaineers Helmut and Erika Simon were making their way around a narrow gully at 3,210 meters (10,530 feet) on the Similaun glacier near Hauslabjoch in the Italian Alps. Erika suddenly noticed a brown object projecting from the ice and glacial meltwater in the bottom of the gully. At first she thought it was merely a doll, but she soon identified the skull, back, and shoulders of a man with his face lying in water. She had stumbled across a corpse more than five thousand years old.
