Were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay really the first climbers to reach the summit of Everest in 1953, or were they actually preceded by nearly 30 years? That's the question that might finally be answered following revelations that director Jimmy Chin came across human remains on Everest last month that appear to belong to long-missing climber Andrew Irvine.
According to an article in National Geographic, the renowned director was on the world's tallest peak with fellow filmmakers and climbers Erich Roepke and Mark Fisher working on a documentary when they saw an old leather hiking boot with steel hobnails poking through the ice.
