No body really knows. Maybe if one day the body of Andrew Irvine was found it might give more clues to how high it got.
Andrew Irvine only ever went to Mount Everest the one time, that was with the 1924 British expedition. George Mallory chose Irvine as his partner for the summit attempt.
Irvine is the man who was second to reach the summit of Mount Everest along with Sir Edmund Hilary who was first.James or Sandy Irvine was the man who along with Malory attempted to summitt Mt Everest and died. This was 21 years before sir Edmund Hillary and so no one knows if they summited Everest first.
Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 followed by Tenzing Norgay.
The most famous legends of Mount Everest are George Mallory and Andrew Irvine who went missing in 1924. To this date it is not known if any of them reached the summit or not.
There has been no real evidence to show that Mallory and Irvine did or did not make it to the summit of Mount Everest. Everything that you read about it is the writers own idea and theory to what had happen. If the body of Irvine is found and the camera is with him it 'might' show how far they really got.
The first Irishman to reach the summit of Mount Everest was Dawson Stelfox, he did so on the 7th October 1993.
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29th May 1953
Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975.
The main two legends of Mount Everest are British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. The left for the summit in 1924 and were never seen alive again. To this day, no one really knows if they reached the summit or not.
Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1975.
Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 followed by Tenzing Norgay.Edmund Hillary was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 followed by Tenzing Norgay