Mountain Trek
A long time ago, an older man covered his tattooed body with a grass cape and put on insulated footwear to trek through the Alps. The RETURN OF THE ICEMAN did not take place until some 5,300 years later when he was found by hikers. The Nova team covers carbon dating and CAT scanning, deciding whether Austria or Italy had the stronger claim to keeping the mummy, and preserving the artifacts and the body. With the closeups of the iceman's tools and weapons and with the impressive mountain scenery, the video is in good company with Cathy East Dubowski's ICE MUMMY: LOST...AND FOUND, David Getz's FROZEN MAN, Ron Knapp's MUMMIES, Don Lessem's THE ICEMAN, Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's SECRETS OF THE ICE MAN, and Charlotte Wilcox's MUMMIES & THEIR MYSTERIES. Some of the scientists in Austria went on to help Dr Johan Reinhard with his high-altitude find a couple of years later (DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN).
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