A foot believed to belong to a British climber who went missing 100 years ago has been found on Mount Everest, in a discovery that may solve one of mountaineering’s biggest mysteries.
Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine had attempted to climb Everest in June 1924 with his partner George Mallory when the pair vanished. While his partner’s remains were eventually retrieved, Irvine’s body was never discovered.
But last month a team of climbers filming a National Geographic documentary stumbled on the foot, revealed by melting ice on a glacier.
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But the filmmaking team is fairly confident it belongs to Irvine, due to the sock found inside the boot being embroidered with the words "A.C. Irvine".
“I mean, dude… there’s a label on it,” Chin was quoted as saying.
There is some history and controversy surrounding their fatal climb that makes it more interesting than the other cadavers. Caveat: Not an expert on this. Irvine and Mallory made early attempts at being the first to summit Everest. There is speculation that on their last climb, they summited before dying on their way down and had beat Edmund Hillary who is credited with being first