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| 0:00.0 | In the fall of 1991, an older German couple from Nuremberg were hiking in the Ustall, |
| 0:07.0 | Ustl, the Ustl. |
| 0:09.0 | I don't know how to pronounce this word. |
| 0:12.0 | In the fall of 1991, an older German couple from Nuremberg were hiking in the Ustl Alps. |
| 0:20.0 | Their names were Helmut and Erika. |
| 0:22.6 | They were about 10,000 feet up on the east ridge of Finnirschpitz, |
| 0:28.6 | a mountain that straddles the border between Italy and Austria. |
| 0:31.6 | A good hall to get up there and cold in September. |
| 0:34.6 | They had decided to take a shortcut, off the trail, and through a gully |
| 0:38.3 | strewn with ice and water and jagged rocks. So they saw something coming out of the ice. The first |
| 0:45.5 | moment they were even not sure what it is, so they became closer, and then they realized |
| 0:50.5 | that this is a human body. This is a man, and then |
| 0:56.0 | had man said. |
| 0:57.0 | The voice you're hearing belongs to Albert Zink. |
| 1:00.0 | He has told this story many times, |
| 1:03.0 | and you'll find out why soon enough. |
| 1:05.0 | How much of him was sort of sticking out, |
| 1:07.0 | or was it just like, just barely there? |
| 1:10.0 | Yeah, it was most of the body. The upper body was more or less popping out of the ice. |
| 1:16.6 | He was a bit banded over a rock, so you couldn't really see the legs. |
| 1:21.6 | The body was face down, hairless, with the bony ridge of spine descending into the snow. |
| 1:30.4 | His skin was unevenly colored, like full-grain leather. |
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