Unidentified woman, Macugnaga (Verbano Cusio Ossola), 16/07/1994
Data shown in the record
- Date of recovery
- 16/07/1994
- Case file number
- 95
- Place of recovery
- Belvedere glacier
- Municipality
- Macugnaga
- Province
- Verbano Cusio Ossola
- Region
- Piemonte
- Sex
- Female
- Estimated age
- between 26 and 36 years
- Height
- 155 cm
- Further information
- Remains
Where the recovery took place
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Notes on this record
What emerges when the official register data are compared with the press sources collected below.
- The body resurfaced on 17 July 1994 from the Belvedere glacier, on the eastern side of Monte Rosa at Macugnaga. Sources from the time name an Austrian climber missing since 1960 along with her guide, but the hypothesis was never formalized: the record remains without a name.
Articles and sources
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Ritorno dalla morte bianca
The article puts forward the hypothesis that the remains are those of a Viennese mountaineer who went missing in 1960 along with her guide: this was a journalistic hypothesis at the time, presented as not yet confirmed, and it does not appear to have been formalized in the register, where the record remains unnamed.
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Il Rosa restituisce un altro corpo
The record gives 16/07/1994, the article places the discovery on Sunday 17/07/1994: a one-day discrepancy, plausible for a recovery at high altitude over a weekend.