LONDON: Mexican officials will attempt to recover the mummified bodies of two climbers from Mexico’s highest mountain.
The federal Interior Department said the rescuer team will wait for clear weather to ascend the Pico de Orizaba volcano.
The department warned volunteers not to risk their safety on the steeply inclined mountain face where the two bodies were found last week.
The two bodies are encased in ice and snow near the peak of the 5,610-metre volcano and appear decades old.
A survivor of a 1959 avalanche in which three fellow climbers disappeared said he’s sure the bodies are those of his colleagues.
Luis Espinosa, 78, said on Friday that the bodies’ location matches where the climbers were lost.
“Based on the location of where the first photo was taken I thought, ‘looking at the place, there is no doubt, it has to be them’,” Espinosa said.
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