Mount Everest remains believed to be climber who vanished 100 years ago

A National Geographic documentary squad has found connected Mount Everest what they judge is the partial remains of a British climber who vanished 100 years agone during a quest to go among the first to summit the world’s tallest mountain. 

The enactment announced Friday that the expedition recovered a ft encased successful a sock embroidered with "AC Irvine" and a footwear that could beryllium that of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared astatine the property of 22 on with his co-climber, the legendary George Mallory, adjacent Everest's highest connected June 8, 1924. 

"It's the archetypal existent grounds of wherever Sandy ended up," lensman and manager Jimmy Chin told National Geographic. "A batch of theories person been enactment retired there." 

"When idiosyncratic disappears and there’s nary grounds of what happened to them, it tin beryllium truly challenging for families. And conscionable having immoderate definitive accusation of wherever Sandy might’ve ended up is surely [helpful], and besides a large hint for the climbing assemblage arsenic to what happened," Chin added. 

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A footwear recovered connected Mount Everest by a National Geographic documentary squad is believed to beryllium to British climber Andrew Irvine, who vanished 100 years agone connected the mountain. (Jimmy Chin/AP/Mount Everest Foundation/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

In his last missive to his wife, Ruth, earlier helium vanished connected Mount Everest a period ago, the 37-year-old Mallory tried to easiness her worries adjacent arsenic helium said his chances of reaching the world’s highest highest were "50 to 1 against us." 

Mallory's assemblage was recovered successful 1999, but determination was nary grounds that could constituent to the 2 having reached Everest's acme astatine 29,032 feet, according to The Associated Press. 

The evident find of Irvine's remains could constrictive the hunt for a Kodak Vest Pocket camera lent to the climbers by expedition subordinate Howard Somervell.  

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The members of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, successful a colorized photograph. Back row, near to right: Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, John de Vars Hazard, Noel E. Odell and expedition doctor, R.W.G. Hingston. Front, near to right: E.O. Shebbeare, Geoffrey Bruce, Dr. T. Howard Somervell and Bentley Beetham.  (Capt. J.B. Noel/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

For mountaineers, the AP describes it arsenic the equivalent of the Holy Grail -- the anticipation of photographic impervious that the 2 did scope the summit, astir 3 decades earlier New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay got determination connected May, 29, 1953. 

The sock and footwear were recovered connected the Central Rongbuk Glacier beneath the northbound look of Mount Everest successful September.

Irvine’s household reportedly is volunteering to comparison DNA trial results with the remains to corroborate their identity. 

A sock embroidered with "A.C. Irvine" was discovered beneath the northbound look of Mount Everest. (Jimmy Chin/National Geographic via AP)

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"I person lived with this communicative since I was a 7-year-old erstwhile my begetter told america astir the enigma of Uncle Sandy connected Everest," Irvine’s great-niece and biographer, Julie Summers, told the AP. "When Jimmy told maine that helium saw the sanction AC Irvine connected the statement connected the sock wrong the boot, I recovered myself moved to tears. It was and volition stay an bonzer and poignant moment." 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.