The remains of a British mountaineer who may have climbed Everest 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary have finally ... one with him and leave it at the top of Everest. Julie Summers, Irvine ...

After all, he was the one featured in the only photo taken at the top of Everest. The reason? Tenzing didn’t know how to operate the camera to take Hillary’s picture. However, they both stood ...

The discovery of the remains leads to more questions about whether two climbers succeeded in summiting Everest in 1924.

Foot, boot and sock believed to belong to Sandy Irvine, who disappeared in a 1924 expedition, according to National Geographic.

In 1953 Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary become the first two people to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Just under 10 years later, Norgay made his mark in another place of wild beauty — ...

What's more, it could potentially help solve one of mountaineering's biggest mysteries: whether or not the pair succeeded in becoming the first people to summit Everest, 29 years before Edmund Hillary ...