The cameras and equipment of a famous American explorer and photographer, Bradford Washburn, have been found after being abandoned in 1937 on a glacier in the Yukon.
Posted at 4:31 p.m.
Last spring, athletes “embarked on a mission like no other: to find an incredible piece of history,” Parks Canada said on Facebook.
The team assembled by the company specializing in the production of videos dedicated to extreme sports, Teton Gravity Research traveled to Kluane Park, Yukon, with the mission of finding the hiding place where the cameras and equipment were. Bradford Washburn climbing area.
Mountaineer, photographer and cartographer, Bradford Washburn was also director of the Boston Science Museum which he founded. He died in 2007.
“Buried in ice since 1937, this cache contained three historic cameras with photos of what these mountains looked like 85 years ago,” Teton Gravity Research said on Facebook.
In 1937, Bradford Washburn was on an expedition with three other mountaineers to attempt the ascent of Mount Lucania (5226 meters), the third highest peak in Canada, which was then the highest peak ever climbed in North America.
Faced in the descent with extreme conditions, Bradford Washburn and another American mountaineer, Robert Bates, had been forced to reduce their equipment to the bare minimum, abandoning cameras and climbing equipment that became treasures decades later.