Body of missing Mt Blanc climber found after 32 years

Paris: The body of a French climber who disappeared into a snowstorm in 1982 has been discovered on the slopes of Mont Blanc.

Patrice Hyvert was a 23-year-old aspiring guide when he went for a solo ascent on March 1, 1982. Upon learning of the snowstorm, his father called for a rescue team but searchers were blocked by weather.
Capt Patrice Ribes of the Chamonix rescue service said that climbers found Hyvert`s body on July 03, his identification papers intact.

Hyvert`s father said he wished the body had remained missing.
"My hope was to die before he was found, because he was in his place. He loved the mountain so much," Gerard Hyvert told RTL radio.

Ribes said 160 people remain missing on Mont Blanc, Western Europe`s highest peak.