The mountain is really littered with bodies ... New Zealand climber Sir Edmund Hillary has always been given credit as the first to reach the summit in 1953 along with Nepalese Serpa Tenzing ...

Everest explorers had found the suspected foot of Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, who disappeared on the mountain alongside his ...

The remains of a British mountaineer who may have climbed Everest 30 years before Sir Edmund Hillary have finally ...

The discovery of the remains leads to more questions about whether two climbers succeeded in summiting Everest in 1924.

In 1997, I had the privilege of chaperoning the late Sir Edmund Hillary during ... secretly removed from the mountain and buried elsewhere to hide the evidence. If Hillary were still alive ...

Did explorer George Mallory and his climbing companion, former Shrewsbury School pupil Andrew "Sandy" Irvine, conquer the world's highest mountain a full 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Sherpa ...

The mountain stands at 917m [3,010ft ... It was used as a training ground by Sir Edmund Hillary and his team to test oxygen equipment and safety techniques before the first ever successful ...

From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads ... Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, he had no idea how his life would change. From that moment on ...

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.

Logo for New Zealand 1990. Interview with Sir Edmund Hillary on the belief that Mount Everest is not in fact the highest mountain. The reporter is John Murray.