While many soldiers were killed in battle, many others died from the conditions on the mountains, through hypothermia and getting caught in avalanches.

Around 80 corpses have been found, since the mountains began to thaw out around a decade ago, along with items such as photos, letters (including one soldiers ode to a woodlouse, ‘the friend of my long days’), all kept intact by the ice.

The ice has many more secret to reveal yet however, as it’s thought that around 150,000 men died on the glaciers.

Unfortunately the soldiers cannot be identified, but the fallen men have still been given military funerals on discovery.

Archaeologists are continuing to explore the Alpine battlegrounds and have discovered man-made caves and tunnels, alongside the soldiers.

Sometimes nature is stranger than any science fiction….