Everest climber Irvine's foot believed found after 100 years (www.bbc.com)

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A foot believed to belong to a British climber who went missing 100 years ago has been found on Mount Everest, in a discovery that may solve one of mountaineering's biggest mysteries.

Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine had attempted to climb Everest in June 1924 with his partner George Mallory when the pair vanished. While his partner's remains were eventually retrieved, Irvine's body was never discovered.

But last month a team of climbers filming a National Geographic documentary stumbled on the foot, revealed by melting ice on a glacier.

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But the filmmaking team is fairly confident it belongs to Irvine, due to the sock found inside the boot being embroidered with the words "A.C. Irvine".

"I mean, dude... there's a label on it," Chin was quoted as saying.

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[-] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

I hope he's okay and they find the rest of him.

[-] FaceDeer@fedia.io 19 points 6 days ago

Indeed. This still doesn't confirm that he's dead, just that he's injured.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Okay? OKAY?! OKAY MY FOOT!

Oh wait, no. Sorry. His foot.

[-] Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 days ago

Some rabbit’s gonna have the coolest keychain ever.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

And 100 years later... thanks for continuing to defile a sacred mountain with corpses and bags of human shit for no reason other than bragging rights, you rich fucks.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

They haul the shit back out now.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago

Only at lower elevations, from what I understand. Once you get into the death zone, it's a lot harder.

[-] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

At that point, your ass is so clenched that the shit isn’t a problem.

[-] Sundial@lemm.ee 4 points 6 days ago

Finders keepers.

[-] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago

I mean there are a lot of dead bodies on Everest. Why is this still news?

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

There is some history and controversy surrounding their fatal climb that makes it more interesting than the other cadavers. Caveat: Not an expert on this. Irvine and Mallory made early attempts at being the first to summit Everest. There is speculation that on their last climb, they summited before dying on their way down and had beat Edmund Hillary who is credited with being first

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

stumbled on the foot

I see what you did there.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world -1 points 6 days ago

so you find... a boot. With a sock and a foot inside it.

AND YOU PlAY WITH THE FOOT?

weirdos.

[-] itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 days ago

Where does it say they played with it?

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

I mean they took the foot off the boot

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

You put your feet on your boots? Weird, I put my boots on my feet. 🤔😂

[-] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Yes but if you think if there's only a foot and not the rest, you're actually taking the foot off the boot, like a parcel

[-] naticus@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Oh I know, I was just being a pedantic shit, mostly because linguistically we always say we put clothing on even if we're on the clothing.

[-] todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 9 points 6 days ago

I'm pretty sure that when you find a 100 year old foot on a mountain, and you're a national geographic documentarian, you probably have to investigate it.

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