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MOUNTAIN MYSTERY MIGHT BE SOLVED

A small team led by National Geographic Explorer, photographer, Oscar-winning director, and climber Jimmy Chin discovered a sock embroideredwith 'A.C. Irvine', along with a boot, on the Central Rongbuk Glacier below the NorthFace of Everest. This is the first possible proof of Irvine's death since disappearingduring in a 1924 expedition.
Photographer and filmmaker Jimmy Chin.

A National Geographic expedition to Mount Everest has found
remains believed to be of a 22-year-old renowned British climber
who vanished on a historic ascent in 1924.

The remains included a foot inside the mountaineer’s boot, his
name stitched into the sock.

The discovery was made by a small team including National
Geographic Explorer, photographer, and climber Jimmy Chin,
who directed the Oscar-winning documentary "Free Solo."

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A sock emerging from the ice with Sandy Irvine's name on it
The sock, with Irvine’s name, was found along with a boot
and a foot, emerging from the ice of the Central Rongbuk 
Glacier.

A headshot of Sandy Irvine when he was younger
Oxford student Andrew “Sandy” Irvine.

George Mallory and Sandy Irvine on Everest in 1924
In the last photo taken of the mountaineers, George Mallory
(left) and Sandy Irvine prepare to leave the North Col of
Everest in June 1924.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

Today in History March 4: From National Safety Day to Toru Dutt Birthday - Eduvast.com

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Un 23 de Septiembre nació Bruce Springsteen - Efemérides rock

New Bruce Springsteen 'Best Of' album features photo by Syracuse

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen (“the Boss”) is 74  years
old today.
Bruce Springsteen is a
rock singer, songwriter, and
guitarist.
He has released 21 studio albums during a career spanning six
decades, most of which feature his backing band, the
E Street
Band
. Springsteen is a pioneer of heartland rock.


Bruce Springsteen…Born In The U.S.A. (album with update) – On The Records

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WILL THE EARHART MYSTERY BE SOLVED?

Image of Earhart next to sonar picture
Deep Sea Vision believes they may have come across Amelia Earhart’s wrecked plane in the Pacific Ocean.

(FOX NEWS) – A South Carolina-based ocean exploration
company says it may have found the airplane that Amelia
Earhart flew on her
ill-fated 1937 expedition.

Deep Sea Vision CEO Tony Romeo, a former Air Force
intelligence officer, believes that the airplane-shaped
object that his company captured in a sonar image is
Earhart’s Lockheed 10-E Electra.

Earhart was trying to become the first woman to successfully
complete a circumnavigational flight of the globe when she
disappeared on July 2, 1937. She was last seen in Papua New
Guinea and disappeared near Howland Island in the Pacific
Ocean.

Amelia Earhart's Aircraft Believed to be Found by Unconventional Team of Experts - The Malaysian ...

Brightened sonar image of plane-shaped object
The CEO of Deep Sea Vision says he plans to return to get clearer pictures of the unknown object. (Deep Sea Vision)

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EXPLORER REACHED SOUTH POLE IN 1912

The Snow Tomb of Captain Robert Falcon Scott – Antarctica - Atlas Obscura

After a two-month ordeal, the expedition of British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find
that
Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded
them by just over a month. Disappointed, the exhausted
explorers prepared for a long and difficult journey back to
their base camp.

Weather on the return journey was exceptionally bad, two
members perished and Scott and the other two survivors
were trapped in their tent by a storm only 11 miles from
their base camp. Scott wrote a final entry in his diary in
late March. A search party discovered their frozen bodies
eight months later. In his final journal entry, Scott wrote,
"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker,
of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but
I do not think I can write more…For God’s sake look after
our people."

       
        
        

        
The Great White South 
Edward Adrian Wilson, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence
Oates
, Henry Robertson Bowers and Edgar Evans at
the
South Pole.

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RARE ENDANGERED SPECIES WAS SPOTTED

Echidna: Egg-laying mammal 'who roamed the Earth with dinosaurs' is ...


An expedition through an Indonesian mountain range led to
researchers capturing rare video of an
endangered species
that hasn’t been spotted in over 60 years.

Researchers with Expedition Cyclops were able to capture
the first-ever photographic evidence of Attenborough’s long-
beaked echidna, a critically endangered
egg-laying mammal,
in Indonesia, according to a report from NBC News.

(FOX NEWS)

Rare video of echidna

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