The body of a man who disappeared during an avalanche on Peru’s highest mountain has been found, 22 years later.
Bill Stampfl was climbing Peru’s 22,000-foot tall mountain, Huascaran, in 2002 when an avalanche struck, CBS News reported. His family knew that he was likely dead, but without a body, they could never know for sure.
Stampfl’s daughter, Jennifer, told The New York Times that she had largely accepted her father’s death but still had dreams that he was alive in Peru with amnesia and unaware of his family back in the U.S.
Stampfl’s son, Joseph, recently received a phone call from a stranger, Ryan Cooper, saying that he had found Stampfl’s body while climbing Huascaran. Cooper explained that he had found Stampfl’s body frozen but mostly intact.
“It was so out of left field. We talk about my dad, we think about him all the time,” Joseph told CBS. “You just never…
