Ice on a glacier melting into dripping water.
A melted glacier revealed the remains of a long-lost German mountain climber this month.
  • Swiss officials found the body of a climber missing for 37 years after portions of a glacier melted.
  • Just last year, another glacier in Switzerland melted enough to reveal a 1968 plane crash.
  • Glaciers melting, driven by climate change, may result in extreme sea-level rise, experts say.

Melting glacier ice — a worrying symptom of worsening climate change — is leading to the discovery of people thought lost for decades.