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On many of his venturesome mountain tours, he was accompanied by Reinhold Elbritz. The two explored countless caves and collected interesting fossils, some of which form part of the Kaiserliches Naturalienkabinett (Imperial collection of natural history specimens). In 1936 Elbritz lost his life during the descent from the Drei Zinnen. However the following year, Doratsch set out to climb the peaks of the Drei Zinnen once again, only this time he took the route on the north face and made the gre<\/em>atest discovery of his life. In a dripstone cave just below the peak of the Kleine Zinne, he discovered cave paintings and fossilised footprints. Many of the paintings of this cave represent chimeras (hibrid creatures) between humans and birds.*<\/em><\/p>\n After his discovery Doratsch was obsessed with the idea, that he had come across a previously unknown human ancestor who could walk as well as fly. He tried to prove <\/em>his theory at countless institutions and universities, having assembled a vast amount of documentation. He even constructed a portable flying machine to illustrate his idea in three dimensions. But in his fellow men he only found rejection and disbelief, which finally even turned him into a social outcast. In 1941 all the material he had collected was confiscated by the Nazis. The few photographs and drawings that have survived we owe to Doratsch\u2019s roommate Karl Utter, who hid them away in a cookie box. The last two years of his life Doratsch spent as a vagabond. In 1943 he died in Hinterstein from the consequences of a fall from a rooftop.<\/em><\/p>\n *According to current knowledge Doratsch\u2019s findings were analyzed by means of a radiocarbon method (C14),which showed they date back to 35.000 and 32.000 years before present, belonging to the culture-epoch of the Aurignacian.<\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb30px\u00bb][vc_column_text]The exhibits were shown as part of Archelog\u00eda prohibida <\/em>at Conde Duque Madrid<\/p>\n curator: Rafa Su\u00f1\u00e9n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\u00bb30px\u00bb][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column css=\u00bb.vc_custom_1552334743874{padding-bottom: 50px !important;}\u00bb]