A grim discovery near the summit of mount Everest could hold answers to one of the exploring world’s most enduring mysteries.
History states the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit, doing so in 1953, were the Nepalese-Indian Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, and Kiwi mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary.
But a British expedition 29 years earlier got tantalisingly close before the disappearance of two of its members near the top.