Film crew says it found possible remains of 'Sandy' Irvine on Mount Everest

Oct. 11 (UPI) -- A National Geographic documentary team said Friday that in September, members found a boot and the remains of a foot that belonged to legendary mountaineer Andrew "Sandy" Irvine on the slope of Mount Everest 100 years after he and George Mallory died scaling the summit.

The evidence was the first indication that Irvine ended up near the summit. Irwin and Mallory's expedition in 1924 came 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first-ever confirmed to have climbed Everest's summit and made it back down alive.

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