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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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so you find… a boot. With a sock and a foot inside it.
AND YOU PlAY WITH THE FOOT?
weirdos.
Where does it say they played with it?
I mean they took the foot off the boot
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.
You put your feet on your boots? Weird, I put my boots on my feet. 🤔😂
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
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.
Finders keepers.
I hope he’s okay and they find the rest of him.
Indeed. This still doesn't confirm that he's dead, just that he's injured.
Okay? OKAY?! OKAY MY FOOT!
Oh wait, no. Sorry. His foot.
I see what you did there.
Some rabbit’s gonna have the coolest keychain ever.
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.
They haul the shit back out now.
Only at lower elevations, from what I understand. Once you get into the death zone, it’s a lot harder.
At that point, your ass is so clenched that the shit isn’t a problem.
I mean there are a lot of dead bodies on Everest. Why is this still news?
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