Mountaineering|A hundred-year-old foot may help decide who was the first to summit the world’s tallest mountain.
From Mount Everest a leg has been found that very likely belongs to someone who disappeared a hundred years ago Andrew Comyn to Irvine. It tells about it, among other things BBC.
Irvine disappeared in June 1924 while he was climbing the world’s highest mountain together by George Mallory with.
Mallory’s body was found on the mountain in 1999, and now a hundred years after the disappearance, a National Geographic film crew found a shoe on the mountainside and a foot inside a sock. AC Irvine was embroidered on the sock.
Film crew leader Jimmy Chin described the situation as “huge and emotional”.
“We were just running around in circles yelling the f-word,” Chin described In a National Geographic article.
The shoe was found below Mallory’s body on the north face of Everest.
The film crew estimated that the ice had melted enough to reveal the shoe just a week before the discovery.
Now the hope of finding Irvine’s body has rekindled after years, when there is more accurate information about Irvine’s probable place of death. He is said to have carried a camera with him, the film of which is hoped to reveal whether Irvine and Mallory made it to the top of Everest.
If the two got there, they were the first people on the “roof of the world”. They currently hold the title Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgaywho summited the mountain in 1953.
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