History goes as follows: In 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine set off to summit Mount Everest, but never returned (Mallory’s body was discovered in 1999, Irvine’s remains missing). In 1954, Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to officially and successfully summit the mountain, and are known in history books and modern culture as the first mountaineers to do so.
Some wonder if Mallory or Irvine actually did summit Mount Everest, only to seal their fate after doing so. And now, an Everest historian named Tom Holzel might have found a way to “fill in the blanks” of Mallory and Irvine’s climb. Holzel believes that he has found Andrew Irvine’s body, which shows up as an “oblong blob” on high-resolution photographs of the mountain. If he can locate and recover the body, he argues that he could potentially locate and uncover the ancient Kodak camera that Irvine brought along.
Holzel plans to launch an investigation of the blob next month, and has prepared an extensive guide on how he will handle the inevitably delicate, 90-year-old camera and film, if he does find Irvine and the camera itself.
[Via: Gizmodo]
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