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.

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

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.

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.

A century had passed since a British expedition saw Andrew 'Sandy' Irvine begin his ascent up the mountain - one that he never returned from

In his final letter to his wife, Ruth, before he vanished on Mount Everest a century ago, the 37-year-old Mallory, who once famously said he wanted to conquer Everest "because it's there," tried to ease her worries even as he said his chances of reaching the world's highest peak were "50 to 1 against us.

A frozen body part discovered on the Himalayan mountain could answer whether someone reached the peak decades before Edmund Hillary.