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Everest mystery: Sandy Irvine’s remains found 100 years later

  • October 11, 2024



Everest mystery: Sandy Irvine’s remains found 100 years later

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 the tragedy that so nearly ended in triumph.

Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, the youngest member of the 1924 Mount Everest expedition, disappeared on the upper slopes alongside George Mallory on June 8 that year while attempting to become the first people to climb the world’s highest peak.

With efforts on the coveted summit taking place in the few short years following the First World War, and with Britain having lost the race to the North and South poles in desperate circumstances, the assault on Everest represented efforts to restore the reputation of British exploration – and indeed preserve the prestige of a declining empire.

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43 comments

  6. Primitive supplies several layers of clothes and trying to climb what was the unknown at that height,balls!!hope they can prove they made it

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  9. I believe Mallory and Irvine did indeed reached the peak of Everest. I think they fell after summiting I akso believe that the Chinese removed both bodies so there claim if summiting the north face first would stick.

  12. The thumbnail is a lie, his foot was found at the edge of the glacier at the base of the North Face. Not just below the peak, thousands of feet below this location. Clickbait lies damage the remains of your integrity.

  23. There are a lot of comments on here about bringing rocks back from the summit to prove they did it and maybe finding them on Mallory or Irvine. Oh, so someone knows what rocks look like on the summit? They must be different? I am pretty certain that I am far more widely read on this subject than any one of you writing this garbage. Did they do it? Did Mallory do it alone? Well, if skill and determination meant anything of course they did. But Mother Nature is far, far stronger than even Mallory. Did Mallory overcome the dreadful weather conditions and make it? He was nearly there. He said he'd leave his wife's photo on the summit…a photo he always carried in his wallet. When they found him there was no photo in his wallet.

  26. Finding a boot belonging to Irvine isn't the same as finding his body or what's left of it. Of course there has to be a DNA test because of all the people that went missing on Everest by the name of A.C. Irvine.

  27. Rumors and false hopes abound. I hope the DNA test show the truth. Nothing, no information on the camera or the climber's equipment. [ie specific to their climb, oxygen equipment etc.] They were rugged men !! I be leave they made the summit!!

  32. Did they have sherpas with them? Surely the sherpas are/were the people who reached the summit long before any of these people or am I wrong? It's just something that occurred to me.

  34. I'm so happy they finally found some remains of Irvine. Everyone already knew something terrible happened so there wasn't any more confirmation needed for it. But to find something of Irvine to lay to rest over 100 years later makes me so emotional. Sandy Irvine's finally been found!

  40. Stop BULLSHITTING…. his full torso and much of his body….HAS NOT BEEN FOUND….What you SHOULD say is, exactly what has been found….i.e. 1 SOCK AND A BOOT ….allegedly belonging to Sandy Irvine.

  43. There is literally no challenge in climbing Everest beyond the exorbitant amount they charge for you to sit at base camp to acclimate then wait in line everyday for your turn at the summit. The biggest hurdle is the altitude but most people use oxygen. Climbers today are not the climbers that came before. It’s just a rich man’s/womans ‘I did it’. Nothing prestigious these days.

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