Nevada hiker details the moment he discovered the remains of missing climber William Stampfl on one of the world's tallest mountains in Peru

A Nevada man shared nan shocking specifications of a find he made while hiking 1 of nan world's tallest mountains successful Peru that ended a 22-year agelong mystery.

Ryan Cooper and his squad were descending the Huascaran highest successful nan Andes mountains aft an unsuccessful acme push successful June erstwhile they noticed an anomaly successful the glacier landscape.

An crystal melt revealed nan mummified remains of missing climber William Stampfl who was reported missing successful June 2002, aged 59, erstwhile an avalanche buried his climbing party. 

Stampfl's assemblage was stiff successful nan fetal position and his clothes, harness and boots had been well-preserved by nan crystal and freezing temperatures.

'As we sewage person that entity began to return shape, we could spot it was a climber,' Cooper told KVVU. 'As we sewage person we could show nan climber had been location for rather immoderate time.' 

Stampfl's California ID was recovered among his possessions, allowing for Cooper to place him and interaction his loved ones. 

The hep pouch pinch his driving licence besides contained a brace of sunglasses, a camera, a sound recorder and 2 decomposing $20 bills. 

'I noticed correct disconnected nan bat this climber had a wedding ringing on, you could spot his ring, it deed me, this feline had a family, astatine slightest a woman and they were expecting him location and he ne'er came home,' Cooper said.

'We saw he was from Chino, California, he was American. So maine and my relative realized we were nan ones responsible for uncovering his family.'

Cooper interaction Stampfl's family to fto them cognize he recovered their begetter and sprang into action to thief them bring him home.

'Twenty-two years later you're getting a telephone call. They already accepted nan truth he was going to beryllium portion of nan mountain, to get that telephone telephone is rather a shock,' Cooper said.

Stampfl's son, Joseph, was shocked to perceive his father's assemblage had yet been found. 

'To get that telephone first point connected a Saturday was beautiful surreal. It took maine a small while to process. At first I thought this was not real,' he told DailyMail.com.

He instantly sewage successful touch pinch his sister Jennifer earlier they each sewage connected a telephone pinch his stepmother, uncle and Cooper.

They each past worked connected nan logistics of recovering Stampfl's assemblage from nan upland and bringing him backmost to nan US.

The family enlisted nan services of a rescue institution called nan Peruvian Mountain Rescue Association to bring their father's remains down nan mountain.

A group of policemen and upland guides put his assemblage connected a stretcher, covered it successful an orangish tarp, and slow took it down nan icy mountain.

He will beryllium cremated earlier his ashes are sent backmost to nan US and his family is readying a typical hike to dispersed nan ashes astatine 1 of his favourite spots, nan apical of Mount Baldy.

Stampfl died pinch friends Matthew Richardson and Steve Erskine erstwhile they attempted to ascend nan much than 22,000ft precocious upland successful 2002. 

Erskine's assemblage was recovered soon aft nan avalanche, but Richardson's is still missing. 

The mountains of northeastern Peru, location to snowy peaks specified arsenic Huascaran and Cashan, are a favourite pinch mountaineers from astir nan world.

Hundreds of climbers sojourn nan upland each twelvemonth pinch section guides, and it takes them astir a week to scope nan summit.

There has been an summation successful nan discoveries of remains of missing hikers, skiers and climbers arsenic glaciers progressively melt worldwide.