According to the Khabar Online news agency, after 100 years of speculation, the remains of one of the first climbers who managed to climb Mount Everest were discovered by a group filming a documentary for National Geographic.
According to Mehr News Agency, citing Deadline, this group, which includes Oscar-winning documentary maker Jamie Chin, was filming for a documentary on Everest when they came across a foot in a sock and a boot, which is believed to be the remains of Andrew Irwin’s body. be He disappeared in 1924 along with George Mallory in Everest. They were among the third British group to attempt to climb the world’s highest peak and the first to do so.
According to Jamie Chin, who produced “Free Solo” for National Geographic, for which he won an Oscar, they found the foot in the Rongbak Central Glacier below the north face of Everest, at an altitude lower than where Mallory’s remains were found. they found With Irwin’s name stitched on the sock, the remains were handed over to the Tibetan Mountaineering Association of China, which is responsible for issuing climbing permits on the north face of Everest.
Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999 by mountaineer Conrad Anker, but Irwin’s remains have never been found.
The team reported the find to the Royal Geographical Society, and the Irvine family has been notified and has volunteered to help confirm the identity of the remains with DNA testing.
50-year-old Jamie Chin, who is a rock climber, skier and mountaineer himself, was making a documentary along with filmmakers Erich Rupke and Mark Fischer with his colleague E. Chai Vasarhelli, the co-director of “Free Solo” when they came across this.
He said: Every trip to Everest is followed in the shadow of Irwin and Mallory, and we definitely did our work with the same idea. Sometimes in life the greatest discoveries happen when you’re not even looking. It was a historic and emotional moment for us and our entire team, and we only hope that it can finally bring peace of mind to his relatives and the climbing world at large.
George Mallory was an English mountaineer who first attempted to conquer Mount Everest in the 1920s. He attempted to climb 3 times, and the third time he disappeared with Andrew Irwin in an unknown place on the upper parts of the eastern blade of Mount Everest. It is not known whether he disappeared after or before reaching the top of Everest, but he and his companion were last seen only a few hundred meters away from the summit. This work of his is considered the first human attempt to conquer Everest.
Mallory’s fate was unknown for 75 years until his frozen body was discovered by Konrad Anker in 1999. However, it is still unclear whether he had successfully climbed Mount Everest. He was 38 years old and Irwin was 22 years old.
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