Remains of Researcher Who Fell into Glacier Uncovered 65 Years Later

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The remains of a 25-year-old researcher who died on a glacier near the Antarctic Peninsula in July 1959 have been located and identified more than six decades later

Experts say the bones belonged to Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, a meteorologist who had been working for a predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey

Bell fell into a crevasse and died, but his remains were not discovered until January 2025

The remains of a 25-year-old researcher who died on a glacier near the Antarctic Peninsula in July 1959 have been located and identified more than six decades later.

Experts say the bones belonged to Dennis ‘Tink’ Bell, a meteorologist who had been working for a predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey when he fell into a crevasse on a King George Island glacier and died. His rem