The Hastings must be buried deep by now.
According to the book about the Greenland expedition, the stunned silence after this crash was broken by the sound of one of the expedition team, Lt Cmdr Brett Knowles, racing down on skis with a bunch of tools to remove (pinch) anything useful he could find.
BK was a larger than life character and was my ATC gliding instructor not long after this event. Reading of the book was almost compulsory for his students.