The recent explorers, from a National Geographic film crew, were on a glacier below the north face of Everest when they spotted a brown leather boot sticking out of the ice. Looking closer, they noticed a sock with a patch sewed to it that spelled A.C. Irvine in stitched red letters. We just kind of walked around, like for a few minutes, being like, Are you kidding me?' Jimmy Chin, a mountaineer and filmmaker, said of the find. We just stumbled upon one of the great discoveries of our time.
In April 1942, Mr. Irvine, a talented engineer but inexperienced climber from Birkenhead, England, who was better known as Sandy, joined George Mallory, a British mountaineer renowned for having reached 27,000 feet above sea level on Mount Everest in 1922. This historical context adds significance to the recent discovery, potentially linking it to the unresolved mystery surrounding their disappearance.
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