Residents of a researcher in the United Kingdom, which disappeared in 1959, found in the rivers of the Antarctic: “shocked and amazed”

The British Antarctic Survey reported on Monday that the remains of a British researcher disappeared in 1959 in Antarctica when he was 25 years old was discovered amid rocks near icebergs and was identified using DNA analysis.

Dennis “Tenk” Bell was working as a meteorological specialist in investigating the dependency of the Falkland Islands, the predecessor of the British survey in Antarctica, when he died on July 26, 1959, in a iceberg in the Bay of Admirali on King George Island, located off the next anti -disease peninsula. His body has never been recovered.

Bell and another man, Jeff Stox, left the base in which they were residing to investigate ice by using dogs, according to the survey. Snow was deep and dogs began to show signs of fatigue, so Bell walked to encourage them, but he did not wear his crawles. He suddenly disappeared in a slit.

According to accounts in British survey records in Antarctica, CBS News Partner Network BBC News I mentionedStoxus reduced a belt to the bell and was pulled to the lip lip. When he reached the lip of the hole, the belt was destroyed, and Bell fell again. Then he no longer responds to his friend’s calls.

The Polish team, which also found the remains of Bell, was also found more than 200 personal elements, including an engraved watch, a Swedish knife, radio equipment, and ski columns.

“When I was informed, my sister Valerie, that our brother Dennis had been found after 66 years, we were shocked and surprised.” Bill David’s brother He said Wiping the British Antarctic.

David Bell said that the work of the British survey in Antarctica, the British Trust in Antarctica, and the Polish team that brought the remnants of Bell “helped us to reconcile with the tragic loss of our wonderful brother.”

“I have long surrendered to find my brother. It’s great and amazing. I cannot overcome it,” David Bell, 86, told BBC News.

Jane Francis, director of the British survey in Antarctica, described the discovery of a “impressive and profound moment.”

“This discovery brings closure to a long puzzle for decades and reminds us of the human stories included in the history of Antarctic science,” said Francis.

Exposed bodies by melting glaciers in recent years

While the ice rivers melt and retreat around the world, there was an increase in Request discoveries It is missing, climbers and hikers.

Last year, the preserved body of American mountain climber He was found in Peru, 22 years after he disappeared to expand snowy peak there.

In 2023, and Mountained residue Those who were missing for 37 years were recovered from a ice river in the Swiss Alps.

In 2017, an ice reduced in Switzerland revealed the bodies of A. The couple who disappeared in 1942.