Overview

• Authorities have notified his wife and two children and are coordinating recovery and repatriation of his remains.
• Police confirmed the identity of Naseeruddin using an intact ID card found on the body and experts attribute the preservation to natural mummification in glacier ice.
• A local shepherd discovered the well-preserved body on August 1 at the edge of the Lady Valley glacier in Kohistan.
• Researchers view the discovery as further evidence of accelerating glacier melt in the region driven by declining snowfall and increased sunlight exposure.
• Pakistan’s more than 13,000 glaciers form the world’s largest ice reserves outside the poles and could lose up to two-thirds of their volume by 2100 if emissions trends continue.