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Equipment lost on Öræfajökull in 1953, recovered in July 2006
Figure 2. Some of the equipment recovered from the surface of Skaftafellsjökull in July 2006. – Hluti þess
búnaðar sem Eyjólfur Magnússon og Alexander Jarosch fundu á Skaftafellsjökli 6. júlí, 2006. Photo/Ljósm.
Matthew Roberts.
Figure 3. The Ice Camp north of Miðfellstindur in good weather, July, 1953. – Tjaldbúðir norður af Miðfells-
tindi á góðviðrisdegi í júlí, 1953. Photo/Ljósm. Jack Ives.
terminus (Figure 1). Eyjólfur and Alex realized that
the items they had discovered were very old when
they identified a broken pair of crampons to be of a
style that would date from the immediate post-World
War II years. This led them to suspect that the equip-
ment had belonged to the two Nottingham Univer-
sity students who had disappeared over 50 years ago.
Consequently, they brought some of the recovered
pieces to the warden’s office in the Skaftafell National
Park headquarters. However, Ragnar Frank Kristjáns-
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