Mountaineers climbing Pico de Orizaba, Mexico’s highest mountain, have just come across the mummified body of an unidentified young man.

This is the third body to have been found on the mountain since March.

As reported by the BBC, a local official has stated that the frozen body -- which was wearing ordinary clothing and might have been a passenger on a plane which crashed into the mountain in the 1990s -- appeared to be someone who was around about 25 years old. The clothes on the corpse (a white shirt, trousers, and a grey sweater, and no shoes) show the man was not dressed for the cold mountain terrain.

The two previously discovered bodies back in March, thought to be climbers that were lost in a 1959 avalanche, appeared to have been embracing each other at the time of death.

After climbers reported seeing a frozen skull 1,000 feet from the peak of the 18,000 feet Pico de Orizaba, a dozen local civil protection mountaineers embarked on a recovery mission.

As reported by Discovery, conditions of heavy fog allowed only two of the 12 rescuers to reach the site of the bodies, which was 1,017 feet away from the peak of the 18,405-foot mountain, which happens to be third highest mountain in North America.

Francisco Rodriguez, one of the mountaineers who helped to recovered the frozen bodies, said, "Their position surprised us because they are apparently in an embrace. The arm of one of them is on the body of the other."

The corpses are emerging as glaciers and the surrounding ice pack on the dormant volcano are retreating.