Meet John Torrington, The Ice Mummy Of The Doomed Franklin Expedition John Torrington and the other Franklin expedition mummies remain
Meet John Torrington, The Ice Mummy Of The Doomed Franklin Expedition John Torrington and the other Franklin expedition mummies remain haunting reminders of that lost 1845 voyage to the Arctic that saw sailors cannibalize their crewmates in their final, desperate days. John Torrington Brian Spenceley The preserved body of John Torrington, one of the Franklin expedition mummies left behind after the crew was lost in the Canadian Arctic in 1845. In 1845, two ships carrying 134 men set sail from England in search of the Northwest Passage — but they never returned. Now known as the lost Franklin expedition, this tragic journey ended in an Arctic shipwreck that left no survivors. Much of what remains are the Franklin expedition mummies, preserved for more than 140 years in the ice, belonging to crewmen like John Torrington. Ever since these bodies were first officially found in the 1980s, their frozen faces have evoked the terror of this doomed journey. Analysis of these frozen bodies also