Andrew “Sandy” Irvine, c. 1920. An elite mountaineer while still an undergrad at Oxford, Irvine agreed to join George Mallory in his Everest expedition in 1924.
The two were last seen several hundred yards from the summit and it’s not known if they reached it. Irvine died on Everest at the age of twenty-two, and his body was never recovered.
Submitted by Rachel Carter
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Don’t climb Mount Everest because you will DIE and people will use your body as a landmark.
