However, they were not able to get the body out of the ice due to bad weather. The body was not officially extracted intil September 23-24 which was 3-4 days after it was found. The excavation was carried out by Konrad Spindler on October 3-5, 1991. The purpose of the excavation was to find the exact position of the Iceman. However there was bad weather again and the excavation could not be continued until July of 1992. Because they had waited for better weather to come most of the ice had melted but the excavators found leather, hide remnants, grasses, string, pieces of skin, muscle fibers, hair, a fingernail, a section of a broken longbow, and the Iceman’s bearskin
However, they were not able to get the body out of the ice due to bad weather. The body was not officially extracted intil September 23-24 which was 3-4 days after it was found. The excavation was carried out by Konrad Spindler on October 3-5, 1991. The purpose of the excavation was to find the exact position of the Iceman. However there was bad weather again and the excavation could not be continued until July of 1992. Because they had waited for better weather to come most of the ice had melted but the excavators found leather, hide remnants, grasses, string, pieces of skin, muscle fibers, hair, a fingernail, a section of a broken longbow, and the Iceman’s bearskin