The remains of an Antarctic explorer who went missing more than 60 years ago have been found — with his emotional brother saying his sibling had finally “come home.”
Dennis “Tink” Bell, a British meteorologist, disappeared in 1959 at age 25 after falling into a crevasse.
His bones were only discovered in January, when a melting glacier revealed them along with his wristwatch, radio and pipe.
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“I had long given up on finding my brother. It is just remarkable, astonishing. I can’t get over it,” David Bell, 86, told BBC News.
A team of Polish researchers had spotted Dennis’s bones in some loose ice and rocks at the foot of Ecology Glacier on King George Island and carefully recovered the remains in four separate trips.
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