The boot with his foot inside could potentially make him the first to climb Mount Everest 29 years earlier before Edmund Hillary

The partial remains of British climber Andrew Irvine, who disappeared while hiking Mount Everest 100 years ago, are believed to have finally been found.

The find comes 25 years after Irvine's climbing partner George Mallory’s frozen body was also discovered on the Himalayan peak.

Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a British mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest, a century after their attempt on

A National Geographic documentary crew has found the possible partial remains of Andrew Irvine, a British climber who vanished on Mount Everest 100 years ago.

The remains of a British climber who may have summited Everest 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary have finally been discovered. Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappeared on the world’s highest mountain in 1924 while attempting to climb it with George Mallory.

Remains believed to belong to a British explorer who vanished more than 100 years ago while climbing Mount Everest have finally been found. Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine, aged 22, disappeared along with the mountaineer George Mallory in June 1924.

A discovery on Mount Everest could help prove that a pair of climbers reached the world’s tallest summit almost 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay got there in 1953.

A documentary team discovered human remains on Mount Everest apparently belonging to a man who went missing while trying to summit the peak 100 years ago, National Geographic magazine reported

The remains of the great uncle of an Oxford author are believed to have been found on Everest, after 100 years of speculation surrounding his disappearance.

A National Geographic expedition with Jimmy Chin found remains believed to be from one of the most famous Everest expeditions.