BEST COLOUR PIECE / Mystery of Everest: who will find the Kodak Vest Pocket? - L'Equipe Explore
- Christine Thomas (France)
In September 2024, a National Geographic film crew discovered an old mountaineering boot on the upper Rongbuk Glacier, nestled against the north face of Everest. The boot contained foot bones belonging to Andrew Comyn Irvine, climbing partner of George Mallory, the famous British mountaineer who disappeared with him a century earlier. This discovery could help solve the greatest mystery in the history of mountaineering…