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 for a rescue team but searchers were blocked by weather.
Capt Patrice Ribes of the Chamonix rescue service said that climbers found Hyvert's body on July 3, his identification papers intact.
Hyvert'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.