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In September 2024 a National Geographic team found a boot, a sock and a foot on Everest's Central Rongbuk Glacier — and the label read A.C. IRVINE.
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
A National Geographic film crew was crossing the Central Rongbuk Glacier below Mount Everest's North Face in September 2024 when someone spotted a boot melting out of the ice. Inside it was a foot, still inside its sock. Stitched into the sock was a small red…
Travel Himalaya Nepal · News
On the ground The Rongbuk sits on Everest's Tibet side, but the same warming is thinning the Khumbu Glacier on the Nepal side, which every Everest Base Camp trekker walks beside for two full days. Guides who have worked the trail for twenty years describe…
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