Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)

Andrew Comyn "Sandy" Irvine (1902 to 1924) was a British mountaineer who took part in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, the third British expedition to the mountain. He and his climbing partner George Mallory disappeared high on the northeast ridge and were last seen alive below the summit, and Irvine's partial remains were discovered in 2024. He was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, one of six children of the historian William Fergusson Irvine, and was educated at Birkenhead School and Shrewsbury School, where he showed a natural engineering acumen and could improvise fixes for almost anything mechanical. He was a cousin of the writer Lyn Irvine and of the surgeon Eleanor Davies Colley.