A melting glacier in Switzerland has revealed a human skeleton which could be the remains of a missing German billionaire.
Karl-Erivan Haub, 58, disappeared under mysterious circumstances in April 2018 in Zermatt, Switzerland when he was training for a ski mountaineering race under the famous Matterhorn peak.
He was last seen on the morning of April 7, 2018, as he headed up a mountain lift but the alarm was raised the following morning after he failed to show up at his hotel in the Swiss resort of Zermatt.
His body was never found but he was declared formally dead three years later.
But now record heatwaves across Europe have melted part of the Stockji glacier in the Valais canton, near the Swiss mountain resort town of Zermatt and revealed human remains.
It is currently unclear who the skeleton belongs to, but German media outlet Bild has speculated that it could be Haub's.
Swiss media has also speculated that they could belong to the missing German billionaire, but several other people have also gone missing in the area over the years.
A Japanese woman named as Junko Sato, 28, vanished in 2000 and another is Swiss-American hiker Matthew Nisly, 20, vanished in 2015.
Swiss media reports that the Valais police's list of missing people in the area is three pages long, but the German newspaper said that people in the region have been speculating that the skeletal remains could belong to the missing billionaire Haub.
Haub was the managing director and part owner of Tengelmann Group, one of Germany's largest retailers, his net worth was estimated at £5.2 billion at the time he was declared dead.
The billionaire jointly managed the company with his brother Christian, 54, since 2000 and they took over from their father, Erivan, who was among the world’s 500 richest people when he died.
The investigation by the Swiss authorities to identify the recovered remains is ongoing.
