The remains of mountaineers missing for 100 years have been found

To this day there is speculation as to whether Briton Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine 100 years ago with his famous mountaineering colleague George Mallory The first ascent of Mount Everest was achieved. According to a report by National Geographic, the magazine's documentary team may have found Irvine's remains on the world's highest mountain. The two Britons disappeared on Mount Everest in 1924.

As the magazine reported, in September a film crew found a worn-out climbing boot with a foot under a sock on the central Rongbuk Glacier on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest. The sock was embroidered with the name “AC Irvine”. Director Jimmy Chin was quoted as saying that the team hopes this discovery will provide more evidence to explain what really happened on Mount Everest. “This is the first real clue to where Sandy ended up.” His body could be just a few meters away.

The summit storm has not yet been explained

She added that Irvin's family members agreed to take DNA samples to confirm that the body part belonged to Andrew Irvin. “This is his thing, and there's something of him in it,” Chen said, according to Irvin's great-niece Julie Summers. It is suspected that the remains of both climbers were caught in avalanches and torn apart as a result of glacial movements. Mallory's body was found on a search trip in 1999, but Irvine remained missing.

To this day it remains unclear whether they reached the summit. When the body was found 25 years ago, it was hoped images on Mallory's camera would provide an explanation, but none were found. The first climbers were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, who stood on the summit of the 8,849-metre-high mountain almost 30 years later.