Frozen In Time

Soldiers of the Great War - still returning home;

ROME - The bodies of three Austrian soldiers killed in World War One have been found frozen and almost perfectly preserved in an Italian Alpine glacier.

Mountain rescue worker Maurizio Vicenzi discovered the mummified bodies on Friday, encased upside down in ice at 11,940 feet altitude on San Matteo mountain near the Swiss and Austrian borders.

Let's hope they just identify them, take them home, and bury them honourably, without a detour to someone's lab.

Posted by Kate at August 24, 2004 2:30 AM