Explorer cameras found at Canadian glacier site after 85 years of voyage

Cameras and equipment belonging to the famous American explorer and photographer Bradford Washburn were found in Canada, which were left in 1937 on a glacier in the Yukon Territory bordering the US state of Alaska.

Parks Canada said in a Facebook post that a team of athletes hired by Teton Gravity Research, a dangerous sports video production company, went last spring to Kloane Park in Yukon Territory on a mission to find the The lair where Bradford Washburn's cameras and climbing gear were left.

Washburn, a mountaineer, photographer and cartographer, was director of the Boston Museum of Science, which he founded in the US state of Massachusetts, and he died in 2007.

The company "Teton Gravity Research" explained via Facebook that "

The presence of cameras and equipment at this location dates back to a 1937 expedition that Washburn was undertaking with three other climbers to try to reach the 5,226-meter summit of Mount Lucania, the third highest peak in Canada, and the highest peak ever reached at the time in North America.

Because of the harsh conditions faced by climbers as they descended the mountain, Washburn and another American climber, Robert Bates, had to reduce their equipment to a minimum to lighten the load, and subsequently forgo cameras and climbing equipment, which, decades later, became treasures.

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