Based on recent events in Pakistan's Kohistan region, the phrase likely refers to the discovery of , a Pakistani man whose body was found "frozen in time" in a glacier 28 years after he went missing.

Naseeruddin had vanished in June 1997 during a severe snowstorm while traveling through the Supat Valley with his brother. He was believed to have fallen into a deep glacial crevasse. For 28 years, his family searched the mountainous terrain but eventually gave up hope of ever recovering his remains.

Scientists explain that the body was preserved like a natural "mummy" due to the extreme cold, lack of oxygen, and low humidity inside the glacier. However, the same climate change that is causing rapid glacial retreat in northern Pakistan—home to some 7,000 glaciers—is what finally "spat back" the remains to the surface.