May 1

On this day - May 1 1999 - George Mallory is found on mount Everest 

British mountaineer George Mallory was part of an English expedition to mount Everest in the early 1920s. In the expedition in 1924 both Mallory and his partner Andrew Irvine both disappeared from the North-East ridge. The pair were attempting the first ascent of Everest, they were last seen 245 vertical meters from the summit. The bodies were not found on that expedition and their fate were unknown until Mallory's body were found in 1999. The 1999 expedition was called the Mallory and Irvine research expedition, and led by Eric Simmons. Conrad Anker was the one to find Mallory's body and it was first believed to be Irvine's body but the name tag read G. Leigh Mallory. Irvine was supposed to have a camera and experts from Kodak believes that there is a chance to develop the film if it is found. There have been a few expeditions after the one in 1999 to find Irvine's body but it remains lost. It is not known if the climbers reached the top and the camera could resolve that.