An alpinist from Lambach in Upper Austria died during a Karakoram expedition in 1985, and the glacier where he was lost has now given up his remains. Villagers in Pakistan recovered the body after decades in the ice. Nearly forty years separate the death from the discovery. The find closes a chapter that stayed open in his home town for four decades. Moving Karakoram glaciers have returned other climbers before, though rarely after so long. The news has resonated in Lambach, where the loss of its alpinist never fully faded. For his family, word of the recovery ends a wait that lasted most of a lifetime.