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Andrew Comyn " Sandy " Irvine (8 April 1902 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an British mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Everest Expedition, the third British expedition to the world's highest (8,848 m) mountain, Mount Everest . While attempting the first ascent of Mount Everest, he and his climbing partner George Mallory disappeared ...
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- Andrew Comyn Irvine, 8 April 1902, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England
Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, an engineering student whom Odell knew from an expedition to Spitsbergen, was a so-called "experiment" for the team and a test for "young blood" on the slopes of Mount Everest. Due to his technical and mechanical expertise, Irvine was able to enhance the capacities of the oxygen equipment, to decrease the weight, and to ...
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Jul 13, 2023 · One theory suggests that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine might have gotten separated during the dark. Or that Irvine became sick due to the high altitude, while Mallory kept going by himself. Discover the mystery and unanswered questions of Andrew Irvine, who lost his life in the 1924 British Mount Everest Expedition.
Jun 30, 2020 · But there's a chance that someone may have beaten them to the summit back in 1924: a British mountaineer named George Leigh Mallory and a young engineering student named Andrew "Sandy"...
Nov 23, 2013 · What happened to Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, and whether they got to the summit almost 30 years before Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary, is the most enduring...
Mount Everest: 1921 expedition. In full: George Herbert Leigh Mallory. Born: June 18, 1886, Mobberley, Cheshire, England. Died: June 8, 1924, North Face of Mount Everest, Tibet [now in China] (aged 37) Recent News.
Andrew "Sandy" Irvine. After two attempts without using supplemental oxygen had failed to take the expedition higher than around 28,125 feet, Mallory decided on one more all-out assault using...
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