Was this foot the first to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest?

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  • Was this foot the 1^is to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest?

    

    PHOTO : via Associated Press / Erich Roepke

  • 100 ans

    That’s how long it took to find human remains believed to belong to Andrew Irvine on Mount Everest. This British climber began the ascent of the highest peak in the world in 1924, in the company of the famous mountaineer George Mallory. Both had disappeared a few hundred meters from the summit.

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    Identified by his sock

    Last month, a team of explorers discovered a shoe and a human foot in a glacier on the mountain’s north face. On the sock that contained the foot was sewn the inscription “AC IRVINE”.

    PHOTO : via Associated Press / Erich Roepke

  • “This is a monumental and emotional moment for us and our entire team on the ground, and we hope it will finally bring peace to loved ones [d’Andrew Irvine] and the world of climbing. »

    JIMMY CHIN

    Climbing Team Member and National Geographic Explorer

  • May 29, 1953

    This is the date on which mountaineers officially reached the summit of the mountain, nicknamed the “roof of the world” (8848 m), for the first time. This feat is attributed to New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Nepalese sherpa Tensing Norkay. But the idea that Irvine and Mallory beat them there by almost 30 years has been circulating for years.

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    Historians and mountaineers say the two British men reached the summit in June 1924 and died on the way down the mountain. So far, there has been no evidence to verify this.

    PHOTO: Courtesy/Rick Irvine

  • 300

    This is the number of mountaineers who have died trying to reach the summit of Everest since the first expeditions in the 1920s. The melting of the ice due to global warming reveals more and more of the corpses of these missing people each year. .

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