In June 1924, a British mountaineer named George Leigh Mallory and a young engineering student named Andrew "Sandy" Irvine ... Mallory's body was found in 1999, but Irvine's was never found ...

At 22, Sandy Irvine—in the ... looking for the treasure map and ended up finding the treasure,” remembers Summers. Several days after Chin and his team found the boot, they noticed ...

The boot, a photo caption proclaimed, belonged to British adventurer Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine ... etched onto the Irvine’s sock is nearly identical to the one Conrad found in 1999 ...

and I wondered if Sandy’s body would be discovered next. “When Jimmy told me that he saw the name A.C. Irvine on the label on the sock inside the boot, I found myself moved to tears.

They found some human remains belonging to 1924 pioneer Andrew “Sandy” Irvine. Spoiler: the camera was not there. Unlike his partner, George Mallory, whose frozen body was located in 1999 on ...

On June 8, 1924, British climbers George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine vanished while trying to summit Mount Everest. Their deaths were accepted with certainty: Everest had claimed lives ...

The partial remains of a British explorer who went missing on Mount Everest in 1924 are thought to have been found 100 years on. Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine vanished aged 22 while attempting to ...

When Sandy Irvine went on a pioneering ... Mr. Mallory’s body was found on the mountain in 1999. But no trace of Mr. Irvine’s body had been found, prompting debate in the climbing community ...

The partial remains of Andrew “Sandy” Irvine — who disappeared a century ago while trying to become one of the first people to climb Mount Everest — are believed to have been found on the ...

who introduced himself and explained that he had been to Everest recently and had found a boot. “And we know it’s Sandy Irvine’s boot,” Summers recalled him saying. She was stunned.

A name label still stitched onto the woollen sock read “A.C. Irvine ... mystery of Uncle Sandy on Everest,” she added. “The story became more real when climbers found the body of George ...