There is a debate that has been raging for decades about whether Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to stand on the summit of the world, or if George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were the first in 1924, 29 years before? We seem to be coming closer to the truth with the discovery of Mallory's body on Everest in 1999 and subsequent discoveries of camp and equipment remnants over the past few years.

For an intriguing read on this great mystery spend a few minutes on Jake Norton's blog "The Mountain World" http://blog.mountainworldproductions.com/2010/05/what-really-happened-to-george-mallory-andrew-irvine.html