British man who perished in Antarctic glacier found 65 years later

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Georgina Rannard

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David Bell A sepia photograph of a man wearing a fur hat looking down at a desk. He has icicles in his beard and moustache. He is holding a magnifying glass and looking at papers, while holding a pencil in his hand. A gas lamp in on the desk. The picture gives an impression of him conducting serious work in freezing conditions. — Dennis Bell was on a two-year assignment in Antarctica

The bones of a British man who died in a terrible accident in Antarctica in 1959 have been discovered in a melting glacier.

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