Mysterious Mummified Body Found on Mexico's Highest Mountain Placed on Display Agencia EFE
go to original August 29, 2016

A team works to unpack ice and rock around the mummy uncovered on the 5,610-meter mountain. (EPA)

The mummified body found in June 2015 on Pico de Orizaba, Mexico's highest mountain, is currently on display in a museum in the central city of Ciudad Serdan.

The identity of the mummy is not known, but the man was approximately 50 and may have died and been mummified more than 15 years ago, according to forensic testing performed over the past year.

The man was short and thin and forensic scientists determined that he bled to death after breaking a bone. The low temperatures on the side of the volcano rising more than 5,600 meters (some 18,350 feet) favored his mummification.

"This mummy is intact. It has hair, fingernails and teeth," Ciudad Serdan Mayor Juan Navarro told EFE at the recently opened La Magnolia Culture Center in town.

The mystery surrounding the find is that the man was wearing a black cashmere suit with a sky-blue shirt, had no other equipment or items with him and was found face down in a very contorted posture.

Navarro said in a telephone interview that there is much speculation over how he came to be on the mountainside - including that he simply may have been a vagabond, or a person who fell out of an airplane or a would-be mountain climber with no experience.

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