Three men go up a mountain, 1 dies. The rescue team finds the body near a cliff edge, but it falls out of their grasp and slides a great distance down. It lands in the middle of a glacier. A scientist tells the grieving widow that based on the type of ice, and gravity readings (?), and so on, he can calculate the flow of the glacier. The body will appear in exactly so many years, on a certain date, probably in the morning. This is about 40 years in the future. Problem 1: The body, when found, looks just as it did 40 years earlier. The body would probably appear darker, and shriveled. It might have been crushed and mangled in reality. The Iceman that was found recently that was 4000 to 5000 years old was probably protected behind a rock. Problem 2: How can the exact spot the body ended up in the glacier be determined? It was only seen sliding and falling from a great distance. One section of the glacier seems to look the same as another. Problem 3: The terminus of the glacier is not 10 feet wide. How could the crew with pick axes find the spot to dig directly over the body? Problem 4: The main issue - you can calculate an average speed of descent, but it varies from season to season, and the snow fall varies. The body may tend to get 100 feet or more below the surface. This is why I believe it would be crushed. So yes, you can get a rough idea when an object will reappear at the bottom, say 30 to 50 years, or even in a 5 or 10 year window, but not a exactly on a certain date and place.
The character George Liston, the other young hiker, is never seen or interviewed. After seeing the episode, I wondered if the woman in the locket was seen wandering around the resort, or was involved with one of the other characters. It at first seemed that the image could have been the Owens character. How could the wife know that the husband did not have a locket? I don't believe she actually looked at the picture. The Mark character (Poison, Bridge over the River Kwai) was the one who looked. That is not too clear. For all I knew, it might have been an earlier picture of the wife.
The scientific lecture in London was interesting. I agree with the general idea but not the specific timing. There was a documentary on TV about a missing plane, "Stardust". It crashed into the Andes in 1947 and vanished. The UFO crowd had a field day with this. It most likely was the first plane to discover the jet stream, but they did not know that. So many years later, in the 1980's or 90's, pieces of the engines appeared lower down. Soldiers went up and found more and more pieces, and some of the passengers -- more to come. This was an hour long documentary. At 45 minutes into the show, a government or university expert was interviewed, who explained that - GASP - glaciers move! You mean to tell me that people who live near the Andes, like in Chile or Argentina, do not know that glaciers move? Is not the definition of a glacier "a moving river of ice" ? So in this case, it hit and melted the ice and vanished into the mountain glacier. It was 50 miles off course due to the strange jet of wind. But at least the people in the Alps seemed to have the idea that objects will be transported down and dumped at the bottom.
I agree with the sentiments expressed by the other 3 reviewers.
The character George Liston, the other young hiker, is never seen or interviewed. After seeing the episode, I wondered if the woman in the locket was seen wandering around the resort, or was involved with one of the other characters. It at first seemed that the image could have been the Owens character. How could the wife know that the husband did not have a locket? I don't believe she actually looked at the picture. The Mark character (Poison, Bridge over the River Kwai) was the one who looked. That is not too clear. For all I knew, it might have been an earlier picture of the wife.
The scientific lecture in London was interesting. I agree with the general idea but not the specific timing. There was a documentary on TV about a missing plane, "Stardust". It crashed into the Andes in 1947 and vanished. The UFO crowd had a field day with this. It most likely was the first plane to discover the jet stream, but they did not know that. So many years later, in the 1980's or 90's, pieces of the engines appeared lower down. Soldiers went up and found more and more pieces, and some of the passengers -- more to come. This was an hour long documentary. At 45 minutes into the show, a government or university expert was interviewed, who explained that - GASP - glaciers move! You mean to tell me that people who live near the Andes, like in Chile or Argentina, do not know that glaciers move? Is not the definition of a glacier "a moving river of ice" ? So in this case, it hit and melted the ice and vanished into the mountain glacier. It was 50 miles off course due to the strange jet of wind. But at least the people in the Alps seemed to have the idea that objects will be transported down and dumped at the bottom.
I agree with the sentiments expressed by the other 3 reviewers.