On September 19th, 1991, the German couple Simon hiking in the Ötztal Alps at a height of 3200 m on the Italian-Austrian border discovered a mummified corpse in the melting ice. After the announcement, an Austrian rescue team tried to release the corpse from the ice. On September 23rd the body and the collected pieces of his equipment had been brought to the Innsbruck University. The archaeologist Konrad Spindler supposed at first sight a Bronze Age man by the axe.