A school headteacher has spoken of their pride at a former student whose remains on Everest has provided closure.
Remembered with pride: Shrewsbury headmaster reveals Old Salopian's habit that identified him on EverestAnd the headmaster at Shrewsbury School says 1920s mountaineer Sandy Irvine learned a 'sensible habit' at the school that helped to identify him 100 years after he disappeared.nostalgia pic. Shrewsbury.
"We are proud of Old Salopian Sandy Irvine as a model of adventure, courage and service that lives on in the current life of Shrewsbury School a century on." The discovery may also help to answer the question whether they made it to the summit decades before before Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing officially conquered the world's highest peak.Mallory and Irvine disappeared somewhere high on the mountain’s north east ridge, having been sighted only a few hundred metres from the summit. In the 100 years since their ill-fated 1924 expedition there has been speculation over whether they could have made it.
Birkenhead-born Irvine was a pupil at Shrewsbury School from 1916 to 1921, where he was head of Severn Hill house.
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