Look, mummy! It’s a Copper Age George Mallory! Scientists at Innsbruck University in Austria now believe that Europe’s oldest mummy, dubbed Oetzi the Iceman, died of a climbing fall — not an arrow wound, as originally thought. That would make the 5,300-year-old mummy, found in the Italian Alps, the world’s first known mountaineering fatality.  Read more at Outside

Look, mummy! It’s a Copper Age George Mallory! Scientists at Innsbruck University in Austria now believe that Europe’s oldest mummy, dubbed Oetzi the Iceman, died of a climbing fall — not an arrow wound, as originally thought. That would make the 5,300-year-old mummy, found in the Italian Alps, the world’s first known mountaineering fatality. 

Read more at Outside

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