Details emerge after body of American climber buried by avalanche 22 years ago is found in Peru ice: "A shock"

An avalanche buried American climber Bill Stampfl 22 years ago as he made his way up one of the highest peaks in the Andes mountains. His family knew there was little hope of finding him alive, or even of retrieving his corpse from the thick fields of snow and the freezing ice sheets that cover the 22,000-foot tall Huascaran peak.

But in June, Stampfl's son got a call from a stranger, who said he had come across the climber's frozen — and mostly intact — body, as he made his own ascent up Huascaran.

"It was so out of left field. We talk about my dad, we think about him all the time," Joseph Stampfl said. "You just never think you are going to get that call."