On July 26, two French mountaineers discovered a corpse that had been trapped for decades in a Swiss glacier. The identity of this mummified man remains a mystery. With the accelerated melting of glaciers, more and more mountaineers who have been missing for decades are reappearing, freed from their shroud of ice. These exhumations are overwhelming for those around them and arouse a macabre fascination for what the mountains can do to us.
The White Hell of Piz Palü (1929), a masterpiece of German interwar cinema, tells the story of the torments of a mountaineer haunted by the disappearance of his wife in a crevasse, who returns again and again to the slopes of the mountain to find his missing beloved. If the story had been set back a century, perhaps the body of the unfortunate woman would have emerged from the glacier on its own, thanks to global