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 ...

Remains were recently found in a sock in a boot on the north face of Mount Everest. Jimmy Chin Andrew “Sandy” Irvine was only 22 when he vanished June 8, 1924. ZUMAPRESS.com ...

Partial remains of Sandy Irvine, perhaps one of the first men to climb Mount Everest, have likely been discovered on the mountain, National Geographic reported. The find comes 25 years after his ...

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 ...

A National Geographic team found the boot and foot of whom it suspects to be Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, a 22-year-old climber who went missing on Mount Everest a century ago.

The 1924 Mount Everest team, Left to right (back row): Irvine, Mallory, Norton, Odell and MacDonald. Left to right (front row): Shebbeare, Bruce, Somervell and Beetham, Tibet (China).

Irvine’s disappearance on Everest in 1924, alongside his compatriot George Mallory, is one of mountaineering’s biggest mysteries – with a solution that has the potential to change history.

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 ...