A man has been left "shocked and amazed" after his brother's remains were recovered from Antarctica 66 years after he was lost, having fallen into a glacial crevasse.

Dennis "Tink" Bell—a British meteorologist—was 25 when he died in the glacier at Admiralty Bay on King George Island, part of the South Shetland Islands off the Antarctic Peninsula, in July 1959.

He had been working for the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), the predecessor to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), and was on route to conduct a scientific survey when a crevasse bridge collapsed under him.

A tragedy during a rescue effort caused him to fall back down into the crevasse, where he died. At the time, it was not possible to recover his body.

The recent discovery of his remains—which were subsequently ide

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