The film crew of National Geographic discovered a boot on the slope of the mountain with preserved fragments of a leg and a sock with the initials "A.C. IRVINE." These findings confirmed that it is about the British mountaineer Sandy Irvine, whose full name is Andrew Comyn Irvine.

He, along with the famous climber George Mallory, disappeared during an expedition to Everest in 1924. Their goal was ambitious — to conquer the summit three decades before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay did.

Mallory's remains were found back in 1999, but Irvine's fate remained a mystery. Now this mystery is partially revealed — the discovery may become the key to understanding who of them reached the top of the world first.

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