Geneva: The frozen bodies of a Swiss couple who went missing in the Alps 75 years ago have been found on a shrinking glacier.

Marcelin and Francine Dumoulin, the parents of seven children, had gone to milk their cows in a meadow above Chandolin in the Valais canton on August 15, 1942.

"We spent our whole lives looking for them, without stopping. We thought that we could give them the funeral they deserved one day," their youngest daughter Marceline Udry-Dumoulin told the Lausanne daily Le Matin.

"I can say that, after 75 years of waiting, this news gives me a deep sense of calm," the 79-year-old added.