The Man in The Ice

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When Erika and Helmut Simon found a body trapped in glacial ice, high in the Otztal mountains, they couldn't even imagine how important the find would be to ouyr understanding of the bronze age. Spindler, who led the scientific investigation of the iceman in the alps from the outset now leads his readers through a blow by blow account of the trials and tribulations of surrounding Otzi the Iceman's recovery and analysis.

All the detail we could ask for is presented with copious photographs, leaving the reader convinced that they have been to the 5,000 year old site ourselves.

Spindler's translator had a hard time with his use of the present tense in some passages, but nonetheless this remains both a gripping adventure yarn and a superbly documented account of the process and pitfalls of high mountian archaeology.

(If you are less interested in the archaeology than how the iceman lived, click here)

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