Dennis “Tink” Bell was 25 years old when he fell into a crevasse on King George Island. Over the decades, a glacier receded, and a scientific team from Poland found his remains this year.

The remains of an Antarctic researcher who went missing in 1959 have finally been found. A team from the Henryk Arctowski Polish Antarctic Station uncovered the body of Dennis “Tink” Bell among rocks exposed by a receding glacier.

When Dennis Bell’s colleague began pulling him out of an icy hole, the rope around Bell’s belt snapped, and his second fall proved fatal.