Spelunker's 41-year-old remains to surface
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Forty-one years ago, rescuers couldn&#039;t get the body of James Mitchell out of the cave where he died while hanging 60 feet in the air, with icy water rushing over him. After he was lowered, workers dynamited the cave, sealed it with rocks and placed a memorial headstone above it.
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The mystery of what killed Oetzi - the 5,300-year-old Iceman found in the Alps - may finally be over.
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.
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The man who 13 years ago discovered the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier has been found dead in the Austrian Alps, eight days after he went missing, rescue authorities say.
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Scientists reconstruct a chunk of DNA from the genome of a Neanderthal man who lived 38,000 years ago.
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After a week of searching, a body of a climber lost on Oregonâs Mount Hood was found in a snow cave near the summit.
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A 48 year-old Frenchman who went missing last month has been found emaciated but alive in an underground cave system where he spent 35 days in pitch blackness eating nothing but wood and clay, police said.
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"Stalin's Ghost" (Simon &amp; Schuster, 333 pages, $26.95) &#151; Martin Cruz Smith: In Martin Cruz Smith's snowy Russia, the bodies only stay buried until the ground thaws. Senior Investigator Arkady Renko's problem is that he doesn't know when to stop digging once they appear.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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A 48 year-old Frenchman who went missing last month has been found emaciated but alive in an underground cave system where he spent 35 days in pitch blackness eating nothing but wood and clay.
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A 102-year-old will become Britain's oldest emigrant this weekend when he leaves to start a new life with his wife in New Zealand.
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Runners who finish Sunday&#39;s Olympic marathon will be watched over by a 63-year-old white-haired Englishman who established the still-unbroken course record 35 years ago.
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A 76-year-old woman was found alive in the mountains Thursday, nearly two weeks after she disappeared while on a hunting trip with her husband, authorities said.
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A man is found alive weeks after getting lost inside a labyrinthine cave network in south-west France.
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Nov. 15 - American researcher Robert Sarmast claims to have discovered the remains of the legendary city on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea.
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For the last five years, archaeologists have been slowly unearthing the remains of Thang Long, uncovering millions of artifacts spanning 1,300 years.
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Our correspondent David Shukman visits the huge underground complex of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva which is 50 years old this week.