The body of a French climber who disappeared during a snowstorm in 1982 has been discovered on the slopes of Mont Blanc.

Patrice Hyvert was a 23-year-old aspiring guide when he went for a solo ascent on March 1, 1982.

Upon learning of the snowstorm, his father called a rescue team but searchers were blocked by the weather.

Captain Patrice Ribes, of the Chamonix rescue service, said climbers found Hyvert’s body on July 3, with his identification papers still intact.

The lost climber’s father said he wished the body had remained missing. “My hope was to die before he was found, because he was in his place. He loved the mountain so much,” Gerard Hyvert told RTL radio.

Ribes said 160 people remain missing on Mont Blanc, Western Europe's highest peak. (PA)

No more naked Apollos on notes

Naked images of the Greek God Apollo have graced buildings and paintings for centuries, but his disrobed body has so shocked one Russian lawmaker that he wants to change the country’s 100-ruble banknote. The note, worth less than $3, depicts an image of a statue of Apollo riding a four-horse chariot atop the Bolshoi Theatre, one of Russia's main cultural symbols. (Reuters)

Florida cat owner calls 911

Kush the cat was quarantined in central Florida after her owner called 911 over the weekend for help, saying the ferocious feline had her trapped in her home. “I can’t get out. She’s got us trapped in our bedroom,” Teresa Gregory, 50, told the emergency police dispatcher, according to the record of the call. (Reuters)

Potato salad cooks up $50,000

All Zack Danger Brown wanted to do was make potato salad and find a few dollars for ingredients. He has amassed 4,000 supporters, and at one point on Tuesday, about $50,000 in financial support from a campaign on internet fundraiser Kickstarter. “Basically I’m just making potato salad. I haven't decided what kind yet,” the 31-year-old Ohio man wrote on the campaign page. (Reuters)

First producer of pot edibles

A Seattle-based company that makes marijuana-infused drinks and candies has become the first business in Washington approved to make edible pot products for the state’s newly opened stores, officials said on Wednesday.

Db3 Inc, which will trade under the brand name Zoots, received its license on Tuesday, meaning it can begin growing marijuana and using it to make recreational edibles in an approved commercial kitchen. (Reuters)

Dance row over same-sex partners

Ballroom dancing organisers have defended a proposal which could prevent same sex dance partners from competing against mixed sex couples.

The British Dance Council (BDC) is considering a rule change which would define a dance partnership as being “one man and one lady...unless otherwise stated”.

Critics have claimed the proposal could see same-sex dancer partners banned from ballroom competitions because organisers or competitors are not “comfortable” with their participation. (PA)

Smuggled iguanas returned home

Twelve critically endangered iguanas seized from Romanian smugglers at Heathrow Airport have been returned to their native Bahamas.

The reptiles were discovered stuffed into suitcases and each wrapped individually in a sock by Border Force staff at the airport's Terminal 5 on February 3. (PA)