Photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin was leading a National Geographic team below the north face of Mount Everest in September when they discovered a boot and sock embroidered with “A.C. Irvine,” ...
When a National Geographic documentary team discovered a boot and sock sticking out of a melting glacier on Mount Everest in September, they almost immediately recognized its significance as a clue to ...
The enduring mystery of Mallory and Irvine, the tweed-clad heroes of Everest last seen vanishing into a cloud as mist swept over the Himalayan summit, may finally have been solved 100 years on from ...
A National Geographic documentary crew may have found partial remains of the foot of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, the famed mountaineer who disappeared on Mount Everest 100 years ago. The climbers were ...
Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine was on the journey of his life, traveling through India, Tibet and the Himalayas, as the youngest member of a 1924 British expedition that aimed to be the first to summit ...
In June of 1924, mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine disappeared during an attempt to be the first people to summit Mount Everest. While Mallory’s remains were discovered in ...
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