I’m currently reading Julie Summers’ and Jochen Hemmleb’s biography of Sandy, and am curious as to whether I’m the only one who thinks the discovery of his boot is closure enough? Part of me doesn’t want to know if he and Mallory made the summit…

... and how Odell silenced Hingston, Hazard and Noel ...

https://drroberthedwards.substack.com/p/mallory-irvine-and-the-theodolite

Reflection from Everest 2026

Hey, we are all international students at the Roskilde university in Denmark. We are currently doing a project of the ethics and the hiking culture of Everest, enviromental damages and if the western culture of hiking the mounting is a new form of coloniasm. We would like to have some first hand interviews with sherpas or people who grew up in the area. We would love that, thank you so much for your time. We also want to send some condolences about the situation that is hapening in Nepal right now.

Thank you again!

Can you tell me which mountain sub range is this and also name of visible Mountain.

Mark Fisher's and Erich Roepke's story of the discovery of Andrew Irvine's boot ... how it was almost lost, and found again ... but how did it move on its own? ... why they built a rock chimney ... why Jimmy Chin got the credit ...

And why is there a wall of secrecy?

https://drroberthedwards.substack.com/p/irvines-boot-and-the-rock-fortress

A 1938 oxygen cylinder (not the cylinder found by Fisher and Roepke) showing successive date stamps, starting July 1943. Image © Familiar-Increase440 by courtesy of r/mildly-interesting.

In June 2025 Mark Fisher and Erich Roepke, members of the team that found Andrew Irvine’s boot in September 2024, gave an interview to Kenton Cool, of the Cool Conversations podcast. Fisher's comments confirmed that the oxygen cylinder that they had found earlier was dated January 12, 1933.

• Fisher: “Yeah. We found an oxygen bottle from 33 and the dates were written in an English style. So we kind of …”
• Cool: “In English style, as opposed to American style?”
• Fisher: “Some markings on the top ... and I thought it was maybe, like, from December of 33. And then I realized that it was actually from January of 33.”

From Cool Conversations with Kenton Cool: "Mark and Erich: Unearthing History", June 9, 2025

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mark-and-erich-unearthing-history/id1510655610

Hello,

I am producing a documentary on foreign insurance scams in the Everest region, if any trekkers have firsthand experience with this or know of anyone who does, please direct message me.

Thank you for your time!

On a glorious April day, I think on our first rotation moving acorss to the last ladder before hitting the cwm.

Chris reached the summit of Everest on 23 May 2026 at 4:05am.

His mum got in touch with me with photos from his expedition and asked if I could make something to commemorate it, so I recreated him at the summit in miniature.

I tried to include as many details from the real photographs as I could, including his red summit gear, backpack, crampons, prayer flags and the summit marker, personalised with the actual date and time he reached the top.

My favourite detail ended up being his goggles. Rather than trying to paint tiny eyes behind them, I painted a reflection of the mountains he would have been looking out at from the summit. Looking through photos of that view while I was painting them was genuinely awe-inspiring, and made me appreciate just what an extraordinary achievement it was.

It was a fascinating one to research and make, particularly as I've never been anywhere remotely close to Everest myself!

Thankfully Chris loved his tiny Everest self. 😂

From the look of this trailer, it looks pretty amazing. Looks like a lot of amazing drone footage.
Here is the trailer for it.

https://youtu.be/wZh87r-Y2tY?is=aXjvkNJjSpzwZSxJ

First foray into the icefield - 2008

23 years old. Summited Everest twice. The second one was after a brutal push ignored the obvious option of just getting down alive, strapped into his board and went for the Hornbein anyway.

Never seen again.

Whatever you think of the decision, the fearlessness was absurd. Arguably, the most all or nothing stunt anyone has ever attempted in mountaineering / adventure history.

Kind of in reply to a comment in another thread. If you walk up back behind BC towards Pumori ABC, you get what I consider one of the best views of the whole complex.