The stays of a person who's believed to have died in an accident on a glacier 22 years in the past have been discovered excessive within the Austrian Alps.

Police mentioned the invention was made by a mountain information on the Schlatenkees glacier within the Hohe Tauern National Park in japanese Tyrol province, near the Italian border.

The stays have been discovered at an altitude of about 2,900m (9,515ft) and had clearly been there for a while, police added.

The information alerted police within the Austrian city of Lienz earlier than rescuers recovered the stays with the assistance of a helicopter.

A couple of metres under the stays, rescuers additionally discovered a backpack containing money, a financial institution card and a driving licence.

Police mentioned the stays seem like these of an Austrian man who was aged 37 on the time of the accident and is believed to have died in 2001.

The man additionally had cross-country snowboarding tools.

A DNA comparability is being carried out to verify the person's id.

The Schlatenkees glacier was the scene of 1 such earlier discover.

Bones discovered there in 2011 have been believed to be these of an area man who had been lacking since 1957.

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As glaciers more and more soften and recede as a consequence of world warming, there was a rise within the discoveries of the stays of hikers, skiers and different individuals who went lacking many years in the past.

In July, the remains of a German man who went missing whereas climbing close to Switzerland's iconic Matterhorn mountain 37 years in the past have been recovered.

DNA checks confirmed the stays belonged to a 38-year-old, who went lacking in September 1986.