Whats up everyone what is gucci.
Im your host Ayman Hasan and welcome back to most amazing top 10.
Personally for me since i was born and raised in a really hot country I would always rather
be hot than be cold.
Like being cold is the most uncomfortable feeling to me to the point when people have
asked whether i would rather freeze to death or burn to death ive always chosen the latter.
Freezing to death is actually a lot more common than people realise and a lot of that happens
when people go mountain climbing and what not and their bodies are then found ages later.
But dead bodies dont even begin to describe all the things found frozen in mountain ranges.
Youd be surprised believe me.
So lets find out more, this is the top 10 Scariest Things Found Frozen in the Alps.
Starting us off with number 10 is Otzi the Iceman which im sure all of you have heard
of.
In 1991 hikers Erika and Helmut Simon found the body of what they thought was the victim
of a modern mountaineering accident.
But what they actually found were the remains of a prehistoric human in the Alps who had
been preserved in ice for 5,300 years.
That makes him the oldest known natural human mummy in Europe and to be fair i didnt even
know it was a contest.
He seemed to have been murdered as he crossed the valley since an arrowhead was found in
his left shoulder but cuts found on his hands indicated he removed it.
He also had cerebral trauma so doctors theorised he must have died from blood loss and his
injuries.
He had 61 tattoos, advanced gum disease, gallstones, hardened arteries and he also had parasite
eggs in his intestines.
So all in all otzi was struggling even when he was alive.
Whats interesting is that based off his stomach contents his last meal was estimated to be
the equivalent of modern day prosciutto.
Technology is so advanced they even managed to study his vocal chords and come up with
what they think his voice sounded like.
And that was in 2016, 25 years after he was discovered.
Thats insane.
Coming in at number 9 are the Missing Parents.
If global warming has any pros whatsoever its the fact the melting ice is revealing
a lot of things once hidden.
In 2017 the frozen bodies of a Swiss couple were found who had gone missing 75 years prior.
Marcelin (mar-seh-lin) and Francine Dumoulin had gone to milk their cows on the 15 of August
1942 but they never returned.
Their 7 kids said they never stopped looking for them so they could give them the funeral
they deserved.
The bodies were found on a glacier near a ski lift at an altitude of 8,600 feet.
The bodies were near each other and both were in World War 2 looking clothing.
According to their youngest daughter that day was the first time Francine went with
her husband.
She was always pregnant so she could never climb the glacier usually.
What bad luck is that, the first time she actually gets to go and she ends up freezing
to death.
At number 8 we have The Battlefield.
May 23rd 1915 Italy began a war with Austria-Hungary in order to annex certain regions that had
mostly Italian residents.
A lot of the fighting took place at Corno di Cavento which is 11,051 feet high.
Both sides had to work, fight, survive and win in critical conditions.
They builds roads, tunnels, cableways, telephone lines, entire villages of shacks you name
it.
The Austrian Corps of Engineers even built something called the Ice City which was a
bunch of complex tunnels, dorms and storerooms dug out of the glacier.
As the ice on the glacier is melting the old garrisons are starting to reemerge.
A full tunnel was excavated which was in the same state it had been in 90 year prior.
Straw bunk beds, a telephone operators station, a metal stove, even wood to heat the area
it was all there.
The people at the site said was it was like walking into a defrosted refrigerator.
And they didnt just find war relics like bullets and helmets they found food, bandages, a deck
of cards, dirty laundry the personal belongings of these men too.
Now its open to the public and available for visiting yknow if you can make the climb up.
Filling our number 7 slot are the Roman Artifacts.
It's always cool when you find something miles away from its origin because figuring out
why and how it was transported is fun in and of itself.
The Schnidejoch (schneedayyok) pass is a route that links two Alpine valleys together and
is usually used by people going from Italy to the north.
Scientists also believe the pass has been used for thousands of years so a fair amount
of trash has collected there over time from all of us.
The so called trash is not trash at all.
They’re objects and artifacts which distinctly corresponds to a certain period in time.
A bunch of artifacts hailing from the Roman Empire were found there.
A belt for a tunic, shoe nails, coins and even cloak pins.
They think perhaps ruins that are located near the place they found the artifacts could
have been an old Roman outpost or settlement.
I know this one might sound like a boring history lesson to a lot of you but its just
interesting to imagine like oh a roman soldier was probably far far away from home walking
through the blistering cold to get to England or Germany or wherever and these were his
coins.
Like how many hands did the coins pass through?
Now at number 6 is the The Théodule (tayo-dool) Pass mercenary.
The mysterious man was an unidentified but its believed he fell into a crevasse above
Zermatt (termatt) sometime in the 17th century.
A couple climbing the glacier in 1984 found his body, his sword.
his daggers, pistol and bags.
The name of the exhibit his stuff is displayed in is called the Theodule Pass Mercenary which
is unfortunate because if they had just waited a bit they would have been told by researchers
that he wasnt a mercenary at all, he was most likely just a wealthy trader who was going
to Switzerland from Italy.
The shoehorns found in his shoes are actually the oldest shoehorns ever discovered.
He also had a punch of pocket knives and amulets on him which beg the question of why he needed
amulets all the way up in the Aletsch (a-letch) glacier.
Coming in at number 5 is The Plane.
This one was discovered super recently, back in August of last year.
Record high temperatures caused the Gauli glacier in the Bernese alps to rapidly melt
which revealed a crashed American C-53 Skytrooper.
They found everything the wings, propellers, hangers, tin cans, spoons used by passengers
and everything albeit old was in perfect frozen condition.
Well as perfect condition as a crashed plane could be in.
The Swiss Air Force led the planes rescue mission in 1946 and their footprints were
also perfectly preserved near the crash site.
At number 4 is The Hand.
Rescue teams were called to the Saas (zaas) Valley because two climbers coming down from
a peak saw a hand and two shoes poking out from the Hohlaub glacier.
Thats just the thing you wanna see while youre on a romantic hike with your loved one.
A frostbitten hand.
When the rescue teams finally got there, they spent 2 hours freeing a mummified body with
icepicks.
The remains of the body were DNA matched to a german man who was born in 1943 and who
disappeared after setting off on a hike in August 1987.
One of the rescue workers claimed the shoes the man was wearing were just simply unsuitable
for walking on ice and so he probably slipped and fell down a crevice.
Both of his feet were detached from his body so the fall must have been brutal.
Thats so scary like imagine that was you youre at the bottom of this crevice your feet are
literally not attached even if you scream no one will probably hear you, you only have
a set amount of water and food before you a) starve to death, b) freeze to death, or
c) get buried under snowfall.
It would be the scariest situation.
Filling our number 3 slot are the Soldiers.
We already know living in trenches during any war wouldve been hell for anyone living
through it.
But the Italian and Austro-Hungarian soldiers living in the Alps lived through a different
hell, they had to be in battlefields thousands of feet above sea level in -30 degree weather.
People just hadnt fought on that scale or height before and a lot of people died many
of them just getting lost to the snow.
It was even dubbed the White War.
But in 2004 again thanks to global warming their bodies have started reappearing.
First 3 austro-hungarian soldiers were found and every year since then more and more have
been found.
Now at number 2 is the Box of Treasure.
Yeah literally.
In 2013 an anonymous mountain climber was on Mont Blanc when he found a box in the ice.
And mind you the guy was a seasoned climber and he had found tons of items in the snow
before, plane parts, wheels, pieces of mineral etc. but he really struck gold with this discovery.
The box contained 100 jewels im talking sapphires, rubies, emeralds you name it i mean the value
of everything was near 300,000 dollars give or take.
He couldve made his life right there if he sold them but he decided to be a good person
and hand them over to the mayor of Chamonix (sham-oh-knee).
We now know the origin of the box was an Air India flight that crashed in the area back
in 1966.
The weather was horrible all 117 passengers died and absolutely nothing was ever recovered
except bits of wreckage here and there.
While looking for the rightful owners of the box two family's claimed it was theirs but
authorities arent making it easy for them to prove it.
Locals believe the mayor and the climber have a deal that if the rightful owner is not found
within 2 years theyll split the jewels 50 50.
Which i dont get.
If the climber was interested in 50% of it he may as well have kept the whole box and
not told anyone about it.
And finally at number 1 is the Manitoba hiker.
Jeff Freiheit was a teacher from Manitoba who went on a 5km hike in the German Alps
back in August of 2018 but never returned home.
After not hearing from him his sister Amanda got worried and his mother, best friend and
400 other volunteers went to search for him.
They ended up finding his body frozen over at the base of the Brauneck mountain.
It seemed like he had fallen about 60m down and that there was no evidence of foul play
on his body.
Rich Manfield a fell rock climber who had been helping with the search posted on youtube
saying how the area Jeff was climbing may have been smaller peak wise compared to other
places hence its underestimated but its actually a really tough climb.
As an experienced climber himself he said the ridge line is very precarious and it just
takes one slip.
If you cant recover from that one slip youre basically done for.
His body was found in a thick brush 3km away from the last location he posted on social
media from.
Well at least social media is good for something in that regard.
And thats it for todays video guys!
This just sort of freaked me out because there are so many mountain ranges, glaciers, and
just generally frozen areas in the world and if all this was found in the Alps.
God knows what else is hidden all around the world.
And this wasnt even the full list of what could be found up there.
Let me know which one surprised you the most in the comments guys and as always im your
host Ayman Hasan and ill see you next time.
Byeee.