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Mountaineers recover cameras lost in 1937 expedition to Canadian peak

Griffin Post on skis in front of a small plane between snowy mountains
Griffin Post, aided by researchers from the University of Ottawa, led a team in search of the lost equipment. Photograph: Tyler Ravelle/Gravity Teton Research

When the American mountaineers Bradford Washburn and Robert Bates summited Canada’s third-tallest peak in 1937, bad luck forced them to jettison hundreds of pounds of gear – including tents, fuel, ice axes and valuable cameras – on a glacier before they began their ascent.

They then had to rework their planned route back due to poor weather, transforming a celebratory descent into a harrowing trek through Yukon territory.

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