The enduring mystery of Mallory and Irvine, the tweed-clad heroes of Everest last seen vanishing into a cloud as mist swept over the Himalayan summit, may finally have been solved 100 years on from ...

Photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin was leading a National Geographic team below the north face of Mount Everest in September when they discovered a boot and sock embroidered with “A.C. Irvine,” ...

On June 6, 1924, one of the greatest mountaineers in the world, George Mallory, and his companion, Sandy Irvine, set out to become the first people to climb to the top of Mount Everest. Sadly, they ...

Irvine and Mallory were last seen on June 8, 1924, while attempting to become the first people to reach the top of the world’s highest peak. The question of whether they had summited has endured as ...

Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest. The remains of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine were ...

It’s one of climbing’s greatest mysteries: was Everest really conquered for the first time in 1953, or did two mountaineers make it to the summit in 1924, before dying in mysterious circumstances?

(wind whistling)(wind whistling) REPORTER: It's the traffic jam atop the world: droves of climbers, waiting for their chance to summit Mount Everest. REPORTER: With a large number of people, the ...

Could famed explorer George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine have conquered Mount Everest nearly three decades before Sir Edmund Hillary? Two British explorers are setting out to probe the mystery in ...

On the morning of June 6, 1924, at a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge high above the East Rongbuk Glacier and just below the lip of Everest's North Col, expedition leader Lieutenant Colonel ...

KATMANDU, Nepal - An expedition retracing the 1924 Mount Everest expedition by George Mallory and Andrew Irvine returned from the mountain recently unable to say whether the men were the first to ...