Andrew “Sandy” Comyn Irvine (1924) was a British mountaineer who died attempting the first ascent of Mount Everest. To this day, there is speculation as to whether he reached the summit before he died. Until now, his body was the only one never found on the mountain. 100 years later, the mystery will soon be revealed…
As has now emerged, in September 2024, a mountain boot with a sock with a label reading AC Irvine was found during a National Geographic expedition on the Rongpu Glacier below the north face of Mount Everest.
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. Both Britons disappeared on Everest in 1924.
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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.
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.
Mallory’s body found during a search expedition in 1999
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.
When the body was found 25 years ago, people hoped for an explanation from images in Mallory’s camera, but these were not found.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who stood at the top of the 8,849 meter high mountain 29 years later, are considered the first to climb the mountain.
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