Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine, who disappeared along with George Mallory in 1924.
By Andrew Jeong, The Washington PostA view of a sock embroidered with"A.C. Irvine", along with a boot, discovered on the Central Rongbuk Glacier below the North Face of Mount Everest by a team led by Jimmy Chin.
Any proof showing they had conquered Everest would alter history: New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay are credited with the first confirmed Everest summit, in 1953. Irvine and Mallory would have done it three decades earlier. In this photo provided by National Geographic on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024, a view of a sock embroidered with"A.C. Irvine", along with a boot, discovered on the Central Rongbuk Glacier below the North Face of Mount Everest by a team led by Jimmy Chin.
“There’s been so many expeditions over the past 100 years, entire films made about Mallory and Irvine, multiple expeditions whose sole purpose was to look for Mallory and Irvine,” Fisher said in an interview Sunday from his home in Victor, Idaho. “The fact that we found the boot is a miracle.”Fisher said he suspects the glacier had partially melted and thrown out the boot barely a week or so before the group came across it.
She and the majority of Irvine’s surviving relatives want Irvine to remain on Everest if his body is found, as was the wish of Mallory’s family when his body was found.
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