The discovery of the remains leads to more questions about whether two climbers succeeded in summiting Everest in 1924.

A photograph showing British explorers George Mallory and Edward Irvine walking to their deaths on Mount ... Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to conquer Everest ...

Foot, boot and sock believed to belong to Sandy Irvine, who disappeared in a 1924 expedition, according to National Geographic.

One of the boots used in the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest ... trip to Kettering Sir Edmund Hillary ...

Now, National Geographic reports that one of its documentary teams found a boot (complete with severed foot) with a sock labeled “A.C. Irvine.” ...

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It’s an extreme adventure playground that is there for the conquering – but increasingly there are distressing stories of overcrowding at the summit, pollution across the ranges and locals who ...

Everest from the north side began in the 1920's by British teams first led by George Mallory, but to no avail. Most significant was Mallory's 1924 British Expedition with Andrew “Sandy” Irvine.

On June 8, 1924, British climbers George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine vanished while trying to summit Mount Everest ... first to do it (predating Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay ...

The remains of a British mountaineer who may have climbed Everest 100 years ago, 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary ... Edmund and Tenzing Norgay’s 1953 expedition is widely accepted as the ...