- Title: Swiss glacier yields bodies of couple missing for 75 years
- Date: 19th July 2017
- Summary: MONIQUE GAUTSCHY-DUMOULIN LOOKING AT PICTURES OF HER MISSING PARENTS REMEMBRANCE PICTURE OF THE COUPLE TOGETHER (SOUNDBITE) (French) DAUGHTER OF MISSING COUPLE MONIQUE GAUTSCHY-DUMOULIN, HOLDING A PICTURE OF HER PARENTS, SAYING: "This one is Mum and Dad's real picture. It is so much them." REMEMBRANCE PICTURE OF THE COUPLE TOGETHER (SOUNDBITE) (French) DAUGHTER OF MISSING COUPLE MONIQUE GAUTSCHY-DUMOULIN, HOLDING A PICTURE OF HER PARENTS, SAYING: "25,300 and something days...I have counted and written on a bit of paper the number of days during which we missed our Mum and our Dad. These are things one can never ever forget. I'll be able to forget only when I close my eyes for the last time." MONIQUE GAUTSCHY-DUMOULIN IN HER KITCHEN FLOWERS (SOUNDBITE) (French) DAUGHTER OF MISSING COUPLE MONIQUE GAUTSCHY-DUMOULIN, HOLDING A PICTURE OF HER PARENTS, SAYING: "The day they left, the weather was beautiful...You know, at that time, we didn't have anything like a radio, or anything like we have today giving the weather forecast for a number of days. When they started climbing up the glacier, the weather was beautiful, until a huge cloud came when they were on the middle of the glacier...They were swallowed by this cloud." VARIOUS OF COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUE IN GLACIER 3000 AREA IN MEMORY OF MARCELLIN AND FRANCINE DUMOULIN, WHO DIED ACCIDENTALLY ON AUGUST 15, 1942 GLACIER 3000
- Embargoed: 2nd August 2017 18:12
- Keywords: bodies Swiss couple Marcelin Francine Dumoulin missing couple glacier
- Location: GLACIER 3000, LES DIABLERETS AND SAVIESE, SWITZERLAND
- City: GLACIER 3000, LES DIABLERETS AND SAVIESE, SWITZERLAND
- Country: Switzerland
- Topics: Disaster/Accidents
- Reuters ID: LVA0056QDWPXJ
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Swiss police confirmed on Wednesday (July 19) the identity of a Swiss couple whose frozen remains were found on a shrinking glacier last week, and who had been missing for 75 years.
Marcellin and Francine Dumoulin, the parents of seven children, had gone to feed their cattle in a meadow in the Valais canton on August 15, 1942.
Their bodies and belongings including food, a book, umbrella and backpack were found in a hole on Zanfleuron Glacier, on Glacier 3000, by an employee doing maintenance work last Thursday (July 13).
The disappearance of the 40-year-old shoemaker and his 37-year-old wife, a teacher, shocked the region.
All their sons are now dead. One of them spent a great part of his life desperately searching the glacier hoping to find the bodies of his parents.
The two daughters, Monique Gautschy-Dumoulin, 86, and Marceline Udry-Dumoulin, 79, are still alive.
For Monique, who was 11 when her parents went missing and still remembers details of that day, there is little relief in the discovery of their bodies, and the pain of their absence remains strong.
The pair were among 280 people listed as missing in the Alps or rivers of the Valais canton since 1925, according to the police who expect to find more bodies as the glaciers melt. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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