To this day, there is speculation whether the British Andrew Comyn ‘Sandy’ Irvine managed to climb Mount Everest for the first time 100 years ago together with his then famous mountaineer colleague George Mallory. Now there’s a new clue.
According to a report from National Geographic, a documentary team from the magazine may have found Irvine’s remains on the world’s highest mountain. Both Britons disappeared on Everest in 1924.
As the magazine reported, in September the film crew found a worn climbing boot with a foot under a sock on the central Rongbuk Glacier on the Tibetan side of Everest. The name “AC Irvine” was embroidered on the sock. The team hopes the discovery will provide further clues to explain what really happened on Everest, according to director Jimmy Chin. “This is the first real evidence of where Sandy ended up.” His body could be a few feet away.
DNA samples should shed light on the case
Members of the Irvine family had agreed to have DNA samples taken to ensure the body part belonged to Andrew Irvine, the report said. “This is an item of his and there is something of him in it,” Chin said, according to Irvine’s great-niece Julie Summers. She suspects that the remains of both climbers were caught in avalanches and torn apart by the glacier movements. Mallory’s body was found during a search expedition in 1999, but Irvine remained missing.
To this day it is still not clear whether they made it to the top. When the body was found 25 years ago, it was hoped images in Mallory’s camera would provide clarity, but she was not found. The first climbers are Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who stood at the top of the 8,849 meter high mountain almost 30 years later.
Source: Krone
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