‘Hundreds and Hundreds of Bones’: In Hidden Alpine Cave, Mountaineer Discovers Ice Age Cave Bear Graveyard

For Pacher, the most important goal right now is to preserve the site as best as possible, because preventing disturbance is the key to understanding this trove of bones. Walde also hopes to return to the cave one day, perhaps in 10 years, to find it in the same condition in which he found it.