Talk:Andrew Irvine (mountaineer)

Mallory and Irvine
Perhaps there should be a seperate article on the Mallory and Irvine Mt Everest Expedition. Most of the infromation about the expedition is on the Mallory page. Some information is on the Irvine page, but a lot of this is a double-up of what is on Mallory's. A single article, about the Everest expedition in particular, would eliminate any double-up, and also remove the problem of comparitively much less being written about the expedition on Irvine's page as opposed to Mallory's. Mallory was the leader, but Irvine did technically spend longer on the mountain, as he died second; and in any case, it is the expedition as a whole which is important, it shouldn't be divided up. The individual pages on Mallory and on Irvine could still of course contain much information on them - their personal biography etc. - Matthew238 02:00, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I agree, the current duplication should be fixed. WhiteCat 04:03, 9 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I also agree. I'd suggest 1924 British Everest expedition as a title, but there were two expeditions in previous years, so it might make sense to deal with them all in one article. Or maybe the previous ones can just be dealt with as "background" to the 1924 expedition, which is the one readers will be most interested in. --Blisco 19:28, 3 November 2006 (UTC) (edited 21:29, 3 November 2006 (UTC))


 * Note: that article now exists; see British Mount Everest Expedition 1924 Twang (talk) 04:03, 9 June 2010 (UTC)

Boat Race
Interesting, that the year kundam Irvine left Oxford, Oxford won the thing, but had they not, then Cambridge would of had 18 years of straight victories. I much mangatholi wonder how much of an influence he had on the up-coming crew?rgd;kgj.dshut ↓

(Cambridge had a clear advantage over Oxford during this period, as Royalty, Physics, etc., were attracting the best students, bar a few HERE and there.) 81♥¶¶####.97.41.246 (talk) 06:51, 14 February 2010 (UTC)

Ref Boxes
There was a box at the top of the page requesting inline citations and a box in the references section noting that the ref list had bare links. There were already many inline citations on the page (26 now). I cleaned up all of the bare links and fixed 2 dead links. So, I removed both of the boxes. It does seem like more citations are needed, but we can add "citation needed" to any uncited claims. Tdferro (talk) 17:48, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Search for the dead body of Andrew Irvine with a metal detector
If the dead body of Andrew Irvine is covered with snow a human would probably never find him.

My suggestion: Use a metal detector. The shoes of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were fitted with metal staples as you can see here: http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/6908/malloryshoe.png

With an ultra-modern metal detector it should be possible to locate the shoes of Andrew Irvine. With the shoe of George Mallory, you could even do a test first. With such a test you could find out the distance from which the metal detector would also indicate the shoes of Andrew Irvine.

:New Searches" section - update needed
The expedition was supposed to have occurred three years ago. Did it happen? Terry Thorgaard (talk) 18:32, 8 January 2015 (UTC)

Middle name?
His name has always been written as Comyn, now it is Conwyn at the top and Comyn further down- do we have proof of which is right?

IceDragon64 (talk) 21:59, 5 April 2015 (UTC)

Quality of the content
Reading through the "Comments by friends of Irvine"-section I was expecting some third party accounts that would actually contain some information. Instead those two citations are merely empty phrases that hold little meaning other than for those who knew him. I fail to see the encyclopedic value of said section.

Also, some phrasing in the article has questionable quality as well, such as in the "Sighting of Xu Jing"-section where it says "Xu Jing, spontaneously blurted out that...". This kind of phrasing is so subjective and therefore doesn't feel like it can satisfy encyclopedic requirements.217.190.155.251 (talk) 14:51, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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May 2019 Expedition
Given the multiple searches and "identifications" of Irvine's body pre-2019, I think we should add the information on the May 2019 expedition to search near Mallory's body, the Warts, and above the 2nd Step. They ultimately did not find Irvine, but it was yet another attempt to find the famous mountaineer. Eatsleeplaw (talk) 16:42, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Did he have the camera?
Need to site weather be must have been carrying photos proving their success (or not) to peak 2A10:8002:FB15:0:2CB0:EEA8:64E2:2575 (talk) 23:56, 14 March 2022 (UTC)

New claim of 1975 discovery of Irvine's body
In a recent (April 2022) YouTube video linked below, climber and Everest researcher Thom Dharma Pollard interviews "professional climber, author and historian Mark Synnott", who recounts verbal information told him by Chinese climbers and others that the 1975 Chinese Everest expedition found and buried (in some fashion) Irvine's body after retrieving his camera (now reportedly held by a Chinese museum), but that later the film could not be successfully developed.

I'm not sure how Reliable a source this might be considered to be, but it might presage further publications. The link is here. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 90.205.224.154 (talk) 19:09, 21 May 2022 (UTC)