Dennis Bell, a 25-year-old meteorologist at the time, fell in a crack on a glacier on King George, the largest island of the southern Shetland Islands in July 1959. His colleagues tried to lift him up with a rope, but the belt to which the rope was attached fell. According to the report of the incident, that second fall became fatal to him.
A team of Polish scientists found Bells material remains this year. Because of the melting ice in Antarctica they came to be exposed. DNA tests on the bone fragments were compared with monsters of Bell’s brother and sister and confirmed that it was the killed scientist.