85 Years Later, US Explorer's Camera Found In Canadian Glacier

The cameras and equipment of a famed US explorer, Bradford Washburn, have been found after being abandoned in the ice of a Yukon glacier in 1937, Canadian officials said.

Canadian officials say the cameras and equipment of famed American explorer Bradford Washburn were found after they were left in the ice of the Yukon Glacier in 1937.

Mountaineer Washburne was also a photographer, cartographer, and director of the Boston Museum of Science in Massachusetts, which he founded.

last spring,

Parks Canada said in a Facebook post this week that three athletes "have embarked on a mission like no other: to find an incredible piece of history."

The team assembled by extreme sports video makers Teton Gravity Research traveled to Kluane Park, in Yukon Territory, with the goal of finding long-lost cache of cameras and other equipment.

In 1937, Washburn was on an expedition with three other climbers to attempt to climb Mount Lucania, which at 5,226 meters (17,145 feet) is the third highest peak in Canada. At the time, it was the highest peak ever climbed in North America.

Faced with a descent with harsh conditions, Washburn and another American mountaineer,

Robert Bates, had to reduce his equipment to a minimum, leaving behind cameras and climbing gear that would one day become treasures to be found.

"Buried in ice since 1937, this bunker contains three historical cameras with images of what these mountains looked like 85 years ago," Teton Gravity Research said on Facebook.

Washburn died in 2007 at the age of 96.

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