Two mountaineers (one of them Reinhold Messner) with Otzi, Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, in the Otztal Alps between Austria and Italy in September 1991.
Credit: Paul Hanny/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
Two mountaineers (one of them Reinhold Messner) with Otzi, Europe’s oldest natural human mummy, in the Otztal Alps between Austria and Italy in September 1991. Credit: Paul Hanny/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images
Ötzi is kept in carefully maintained conditions, as close as possible to the glacier that preserved his body for more than 5,000 years. The chamber is a brisk -6º Celsius, with 99 percent humidity carefully maintained
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