When Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made history by reaching the top of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953 - and returned to tell the tale - they doubted that the world's highest peak would ...
More than 100 years ago, a 22-year-old British explorer named Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine vanished along with the mountaineer ...
A frozen body part discovered on the Himalayan mountain could answer whether someone reached the peak decades before Edmund ...
In 1924, Andrew "Sandy" Irvine joined George Mallory’s expedition to the world’s highest peak. Now, Irvine’s recently found ...
Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine disappeared on the world’s highest mountain in 1924 while attempting to climb it with George Mallory ...
A team of National Geographic climbers and filmmakers made the discovery on the treacherous north face of the world’s highest ...
The discovery of the remains leads to more questions about whether two climbers succeeded in summiting Everest in 1924.
Remains found on Mount Everest may have belonged to the British climber Andrew Comyn “Sandy” Irvine, who disappeared along ...
But turn back the pages of climbing history a little more than four decades ago and it’s evident that reaching the peak of ...
A century had passed since a British expedition saw Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine begin his ascent up the mountain - one that he ...
Everest. John West is Professor of Medicine and Physiology in the School of Medicine, University of California San Diego. He was a physiologist on Sir Edmund Hillary's Silver Hut expedition in ...