In August 2022, a team located camera equipment that had been abandoned by famous explorers Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates in 1937 on the Walsh Glacier in Canada’s Kluane National Park. The cameras contained decades-old images of the landscape that could provide data on glacial movement. After months of searching led by explorer Griffin Post and glaciologist Dora Medrzycka, they found pieces of Washburn’s aerial camera and two movie cameras with undeveloped film. Medrzycka’s guidance was crucial to the discovery.

They hope the recovered film can be developed and provide a rare glimpse of the area as it appeared over 80 years ago. Finding the equipment after so many decades was an unbelievable validation for Post and his team.

Sources

• https://www.swedbank.nl/2022/10/31/legendary-mountaineer-bradford-washburns-lost-cache-unearthed/
• https://people.com/human-interest/cameras-abandoned-by-famed-yukon-explorers-found-85-years-later/