In June 1924, a British mountaineer named George Leigh Mallory and a young engineering student named Andrew “Sandy” Irvine set off for the summit of Mount Everest and disappeared—two more casualties ...
Mount Everest as seen from an aircraft over Nepal on September 14, 2013. A documentary team said it found the remains of a foot belonging to climber Andrew "Sandy" Irvine on a slope along Mount ...
The discovery, made by a National Geographic team 100 years after the mountaineer vanished with George Mallory, could add new clues to one of the great unsolved adventure mysteries of all time.
A century-old mystery just took a major new turn. Over 100 years after British mountain climber Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine mysteriously disappeared while climbing Mount Everest alongside fellow ...
Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest. The remains of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were ...
On 8 June 1924, Noel Odell, a climber and geologist on the third British Everest expedition, scrambled to the top of a small crag at 7,925m and peered upwards. The summit of the world's highest ...
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 ...
Could famed explorer George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine have conquered Mount Everest nearly three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary? Two British explorers are setting out to probe the mystery in ...
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images More than 340 people have died trying to ...