Last week’s announcement that a boot and partial remains believed to belong to the British explorer Sandy Irvine had been found on Mount Everest by a National Geographic documentary crew supercharged interest in a mystery that has endured since he vanished with George Mallory on the mountain 100 years ago.

US mountaineers recently discovered the boot, sock and foot of Andrew Irvine on Mount Everest. But does this mean he might have made history before anyone else? DW examines the evidence.

Everest’s great mystery solved? Sandy Irvine’s remains found 100 years after tweed-clad climber vanished - Whether Irvine and Mallory reached the peak of Everest remains one of climbing’s great myster

The remains of a British mountaineer who may have climbed Everest 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary have finally been discovered.Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappeared on the world’s highest mountain in 1924 while attempting to climb it with George Mallory.

A group led by filmmaker Jimmy Chin found the boot of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, the British climber who vanished on Everest alongside George Mallory in 1924. Experts say the mystery involving the duo remains.

Expedition led by National Geographic claims to have found partial remains of British mountaineor Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine, possibly solving the mystery of whether he and George Mallory were the first to climb Mount Everest in 1924.