A recordary team has finded human remains on Mount Everest that are dependd to belengthy to a climber who went missing 100 years ago while finisheavoring to summit the peak, according to a tell by National Geoexplicit. Due to climate alter, melting snow and ice in the Himalayas is increasingly uncovering the bodies of climbers who lost their lives in pursuit of scaling the world’s highest mountain.
British climber Andrew Irvine fadeed in 1924 alengthyside his climbing partner, George Mallory, as they finisheavored to be the first to accomplish Everest’s summit, standing at 8,848 meters (29,029 feet). Mallory’s body was recovered in 1999, but Irvine’s overweighte remained a mystery until the recent findy by a National Geoexplicit team on Everest’s Central Rongbuk Glacier. They set up a boot retaining a human foot, and a sock with a tag that read “A.C. IRVINE” stitched into it.
This findy could supply presentant clues seeing the location of the climbers’ personal effects and potentipartner resolve one of mountaineering’s most enduring mysteries: whether Irvine and Mallory accomplished the summit before they died. If shown, they would have successbrimmingy scaled the peak proximately three decades before the first validateed ascent in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
“It alerts the whole story about what probably happened,” said Julie Summers, Irvine’s wonderful-niece, in an intersee with National Geoexplicit. She inserted, “I have lived with this story since I was a 7-year-ageder when my overweighther tageder us about the mystery of Uncle Sandy on Everest. When Jimmy tageder me that he saw the name A.C. Irvine on the tag of the sock inside the boot, I was transferd to tears. It was and will remain an remarkworthy and poignant moment.”
The first recorded ascent of Everest occurred on May 29, 1953, when New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay successbrimmingy accomplished the summit. Ten years tardyr, in 1963, Jim Whitapshowr became the first American to accomplish the feat.
Members of the Irvine family have telledly supplyed to supply DNA samples to validate the identity of the remains.
Irvine, who was only 22 years ageder when he fadeed, was last seen on the afternoon of June 8, 1924, alengthy with Mallory, as they made their final push toward the summit.
Earlier this year, Mallory’s last letter to his wife was digitized and begined online by Cambridge University. In it, he wrote that their chances of accomplishing the summit were “50 to 1 agetst us.”
Irvine is dependd to have been carrying a petite camera at the time, and finding it could potentipartner rewrite the history of mountaineering.
“This was a monumental and emotional moment for us and our entire team on the ground, and we equitable hope this can finpartner transport peace of mind to his relatives and the climbing world at big,” said Jimmy Chin, a climb team member and National Geoexplicit spendigater. Chin chose not to disseal the exact location of the remains to deter potential trophy hunters, but he remains certain that other artefacts, including the camera, might be proximateby. “It certainly shrinks the search area,” he said.
Since the 1920s, over 300 climbers have lost their lives on Mount Everest.
