a Nikon frozen in time courtesy Pablo Betancourt
Toronto. Sometimes climate change uncovers a disaster from years past. In this case an event nearly 50 years old. George Dunbar came across this NY Times article (you need an account to read the original article as NYT has a pay wall these days). If you don’t have a subscription, you can read the article here or on the FRI site linked below.
George writes, “High on Aconcagua, the Western Hemisphere’s highest mountain, the shrinking Polish Glacier spits out what it once devoured.
“That is how Janet Johnson and John Cooper became part of the folklore of Aconcagua. They climbed along with others in 1973. Johnson’s body was found in 1975. Nearly five decades later, an old Nikon camera had emerged from the receding glacier. It was wound, prepared to take the next picture.”
George then notes the Canadian connection to this article, “INDIAN HEAD, SASKATCHEWAN, is about an hour east of Regina. Its tallest structure is a grain elevator. There is not a mountain in sight. On a downtown corner is a former bank, a two-story brick structure from the 1800s. Today it is home to Film Rescue International [FRI], run by a man named Greg Miller.”
And FRI processed the film taken 50 years ago by the Nikon before disaster hit. You can also read the article here complete with photos and video saved by FRI.
