A climbing team discovered human remains that are believed to belong to Andrew Irvine, who went missing while climbing Everest in 1924 Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE.

A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported Friday.

The foot of a British adventurer is believed to have been found on Mount Everest after 100 years of speculation about his disappearance. Andrew "Sandy" Irvine was the youngest member of the 1924 ...

When Sandy Irvine went on a pioneering expedition to Mount Everest’s summit in 1924, he and his partner vanished. The recent discovery may shed light on the ill-fated adventure. By Hank Sanders ...

Over 100 years after British mountain climber Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine mysteriously disappeared while climbing Mount Everest alongside fellow mountaineer George Mallory, a boot found ...

It was the call the family of a young British climber who went missing on Everest 100 years ago had ... A number of people have searched for Irvine's body over the years, partly because the ...

Mount Everest, Earth’s tallest mountain ... which are slabs of rock that move incredibly slowly over time. In fact, long long ago — about 190 million years ago — all of Earth’s continents ...

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.

But turn back the pages of climbing history a little more than four decades ago and it’s evident that reaching the peak of Mount Everest was ... province of Alberta over the years.

The enduring mystery of Mallory and Irvine, the tweed-clad heroes of Everest last seen vanishing into a cloud as mist swept over the Himalayan summit, may finally have been solved 100 years on from ...

Chin carried the boot and foot off Everest in a cooler and turned it over to the CTMA. His team also took a DNA sample that they are working with the British Consulate on for further identification.