The boot with his foot inside could potentially make him the first to climb Mount Everest 29 years earlier before Edmund Hillary

The partial remains of British climber Andrew Irvine, who disappeared while hiking Mount Everest 100 years ago, are believed to have finally been found.

The find comes 25 years after Irvine's climbing partner George Mallory’s frozen body was also discovered on the Himalayan peak.

A National Geographic documentary team said Friday that in September membrs found a boot and the remains of a foot that belonged to legendary mountaineer Andrew "Sandy" Irvine on the slope of Mount Everest.

Climbers believe they have found the partial remains of a British mountaineer who might — or might not — have been one of the first two people to climb Mount Everest, a century after their attempt on

A National Geographic documentary crew has found the possible partial remains of Andrew Irvine, a British climber who vanished on Mount Everest 100 years ago.

The remains of a British climber who may have summited 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.

Remains believed to belong to a British explorer who vanished more than 100 years ago while climbing Mount Everest have finally been found. Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine, aged 22, disappeared along with the mountaineer George Mallory in June 1924.

A discovery on Mount Everest could help prove that a pair of climbers reached the world’s tallest summit almost 30 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay got there in 1953.