Helmut Simon was born on 11 November 1937 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to Erika Simon. He died on 23 October 2004 in Gamskarkogel, Salzburg, Austria.
(On discovering Otzi the iceman): "We thought it was a mountain climber
or a skier who'd had an accident perhaps 10 years previously or perhaps
two years previously."