by The remains of a British researcher, who disappeared in Antarctic at the age of 25 in 1959, were discovered near a receded glacier and identified using the DNA analysis, said the British Antarctic survey on Monday.
Dennis “Tink” Bell had worked as a meteorologist for the dependency survey in the mutual islands, the predecessor of the British Antarctic survey, when on July 26, 1959 he died in a column on a glacier in Admiralty Bay on King George Island. His body was never recovered.
Bell and another man, Jeff Stokes, left the base in which they spend the night to examine a glacier with a dog, according to the survey. The snow was deep and the dogs showed signs of fatigue, so Bell opened to encourage them, but did not wear his skis. He suddenly disappeared into a column.
According to reports in the British Antarctic Survey Records, CBS News Partner Network BBC News, Stokes lowered a belt on Bell and he was pulled to the lip of the column. When he reached the lip of the hole, the belt broke and Bell fell again. He then no longer replied to his friend’s calls.
The Polish team, which found Bell’s remains, also found more than 200 personal items, including a registered watch, a Swedish knife, a radio device and a ski killing.
“When my sister Valerie and I were informed that our brother Dennis had been found after 66 years, we were shocked and astonished,” said Bell’s brother David of the British Antarctic survey.
Dennis Bell (left) is shown with his colleagues and dogs who helped them work in Antarctica in the Admiralty Bay Base in 1959. / Credit: British Antarctic Survey
David Bell said that the work of the British Antarctic Survey, the British Antarctic Monument and the Polish team, the Bells brought the remains home, helped us to deal with the tragic loss of our brilliant brother. “
“I had given up for a long time to find my brother. It is simply remarkable, amazing. I can’t get over it,” said David Bell, now 86, to BBC News.
Jane Francis, the director of the British Antarctic survey, described the discovery as a “moving and profound moment”.
“This discovery brings a secret of decades and reminds us of the human stories that are embedded in the history of antarctic science,” said Francis.
Bodies that have been exposed to melting glaciers in recent years
When Glacier melt and go back worldwide, it has increased Discoveries of the remains of missing skiers, climbers and hikers.
Last year the preserved body of one American climmer It was found 22 years after disappearing in Peru a snow -capped summit.
In 2023 the Remains of a mountaineer The ones were missing for 37 years were recovered by a glacier in the Swiss Alps.
In 2017, a shrinking glacier in Switzerland unveiled the corpses of A Couple who was missing in 1942.
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