Mummified man 'dead for EIGHT months' found hugging a tree

MYSTERY: A mummified man thought has been found hugging a tree

Russian investigators say that the tree hugger was perched some 50 ft above the ground.
The dead man was sitting on a branch of a pine tree in the northern outskirts of Tomsk, in Siberia.
The unidentified victim is believed to have climbed the tree in winter and died of hypothermia.

He was found with both arms hugging the tree.
The mummy was spotted on 1 July by local man Pavel Petrov, near a road leading to the 'closed city' of Seversk, from which foreigners are banned, where Russia enriches and reprocesses uranium and plutonium.
He told The Siberian Times: "It was me and my father who found the body. He was sitting on a pine tree some 50 metres away from the road.