A British researcher's remains were discovered in a melting Antarctic glacier after he died from a fall while on a research mission 66 years ago.

 I guess everyone who disappears in a crevasse will melt out eventually.

Dennis "Tink" Bell fell into a crevasse while working for Falkland IslandsDependencies in 1959, the predecessor of the British Antarctic Survey, which reported the discovery on Monday.

Bell was working alongside four men and two dog sledges, a surveyor Jeff Stokes, meteorologists Ken Gibson and geologist Colin Barton.

Stokes and Bell believed a crevassed area was in the clear. But as the team and its dogs were struggling to make it through the snow. Bell went ahead of the group as an act of encouragement but he suddenly disappeared leaving a gaping hole down 100ft in the crevasse bridge.

Stokes called repeatedly out to Bell, lowering a rope almost a hundred feet. He told Bell to tie himself on, Stokes and the dogs began to pull him up but Bell had tied the rope through his belt instead of around his body due to the angle he was laying at in the crevasse. When he reached the top his body jammed against the lip, his belt broke, and he fell down again.

Stokes and Bell were initially ahead of Gibson and Barton. So, Stokes went down the glacier to meet with the two. They attempted to return to the crevasse but the weather had taken a turn for the worse.

"It was probably 12 hours before we found the site. There was no way he could have survived," said GIbson.