Remains on Matterhorn are Japanese climbers gone since 1970.
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Remains found at the foot of Switzerland's Matterhorn glacier have been identified as two Japanese climbers who disappeared 45 years ago.
DNA tests showed the bones belonged to the men, who went missing on the mountain in August 1970, police say.
The remains were discovered at an altitude of about 2,800m (9,200ft) in the Alps last September.
They are the latest to be found on the 4,478-metre (14,692-foot) Matterhorn as ice melts.
The Japanese consulate in Geneva identified the climbers as Michio Oikawa and Masayuki Kobayashi, AFP news agency reports. They were 22 and 21 respectively when they went missing.
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