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The frozen bodies of a Swiss couple who went missing 75 years ago in the Alps have been found on a shrinking glacier, Swiss media said on Tuesday.

Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the parents of seven children, had gone to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on August 15, 1942.

"We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day," their youngest daughter Marceline Udry-Dumoulin told the Lausanne daily Le Matin.

"I can say that after 75 years of waiting this news gives me a deep sense of calm," added the 79-year-old.

In an overnight statement, Valais cantonal police said that two bodies bearing identity papers had been discovered last week by a worker on Tsanfleuron glacier near a ski lift above Les Diablerets resort at an altitude of 2,615 metres (8,600 feet).

DNA testing would be carried out to confirm the identities of the couple.

"The bodies were lying near each other. It was a man and a woman wearing clothing dating from the period of World War Two," Bernhard Tschannen, director of Glacier 3000, told the paper.

"They were perfectly preserved in the glacier and their belongings were intact."

"We think they may have fallen into a crevasse where they stayed for decades. As the glacier receded, it gave up their bodies," he told the daily Tribune de Geneve.

Marcelin Dumoulin, 40, was a shoemaker, while Francine, 37, was a teacher. They left five sons and two daughters.

"It was the first time my mother went with him on such an excursion. She was always pregnant and couldn't climb in the difficult conditions of a glacier," Udry-Dumoulin said.

"After a while, we children were separated and placed in families. I was lucky to stay with my aunt," she said. "We all lived in the region but became strangers."

"For the funeral, I won't wear black. I think that white would be more appropriate. It represents hope, which I never lost."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017...-75-years-ago/

[Shaun]

ugh the lengths Sky Atlantic will go to to give Fortitude promo

(but no really, how bizarre)

[arista]

Long Time Frozen
amazing find

[DemolitionRed]

Glaciers are formidable forces of nature that have always scared me because they can be very unpredictable. Our home in France is close to 'Glacier Blanc' (near Pelvoux) but I have never had the desire to venture on to it.

I'm pleased for their family who have waited all these years. The article is a little confusing though, because it sounds like they went to milk their cow on the glacier or had to cross a glacier to get to their cow, which isn't possible. They clearly set out on an adventure that went terribly wrong.

[user104658]

So they're not still alive? I feel like Captain America has been false advertising.