Benevolent Summits

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Panoramic perfection from the peaks. Sky, snow, forest, and ocean all in one frame. ( Mount Seymour Summit, Tim Jones Peak, Pump Peak)

Andrew Irvine was a British mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, the third British expedition to the world's highest mountain. He and his climbing partner George Mallory disappeared somewhere high on the mountain's Northeast Ridge on June 8, 1924, and were reportedly last seen alive at an indeterminate distance from the summit.
George Mallory's body was found in 1999.
In 2024, exactly a century after Andrew Irvine's disappearance, an expedition led by Jimmy Chin recovered a detached foot inside a boot and sock on Rongbuk Glacier. The sock was embroidered with 'A.C. Irvine' and is believed to be Andrew Irvine's.
Per Jimmy Chin, it is suspected the remains had melted out of the glacier about a week prior to discovery. Due to the presence of scavenging birds, Jimmy Chin and his team removed the foot and turned it over to the China Tibet Mountaineering Association, the governmental agency which oversees the North Side of Mount Everest.