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June 27, 2015
As globe warms, melting glaciers revealing more than bare earth
By Sheila Samples
As the once-frozen world emerges from slumber, it's yielding relics, debris -- and corpses -- that have laid hidden for decades, even millennia. Pico de Orizaba towers above all other mountains in Mexico at 18,491 feet. For a handful of climbers, it has been their last peak. They've been buried by avalanches or swallowed by crevasses. Now, the mountain is spitting back their bodies.
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As the once-frozen world emerges from slumber, it's yielding relics, debris -- and corpses -- that have laid hidden for decades, even millennia. Pico de Orizaba towers above all other mountains in Mexico at 18,491 feet. For a handful of climbers, it has been their last peak. They've been buried by avalanches or swallowed by crevasses. Now, the mountain is spitting back their bodies.Sheila Samples is an Oklahoma writer and a former civilian US Army Public Information Officer. She is a Managing Editor for OpEd News, and a regular contributor for a variety of Internet sites.