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Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (1914–1986)
Tenzing Norgay
Norgay in Stockholm, 1967
Personal information
Birth name
Namgyal Wangdi
Main discipline
Mountaineer
Born
(1914-05-00)May 1914 Tengboche, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, or Tse Chu, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Died
9 May 1986(1986-05-09) (aged 71–72) Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Nationality
Nepalese
Indian
Career
Starting age
19 years
Starting discipline
Porter
Notable ascents
First ascent of Mount Everest, May 1953
Famous partnerships
Edmund Hillary
Family
Spouse
Dawa Phuti
(m. 1935; died 1944)
Ang Lahmu
(m. 1945; died 1964)
Dakku (m. before or in 1964)
Children
7, including Jamling
Signature
Tenzing NorgayGMOSN (/ˈtɛnzɪŋˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱསtendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing,[1] was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer.[2][3] He was one of the first two people known to certainly reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953.[4]Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.[5]
^Norgay, Jamling Tenzing; Coburn, Broughton (2002). Touching My Father's Soul: In the Footsteps of Sherpa Tenzing. Ebury Press. ISBN 978-0-09-188467-3. Archived from the original on 28 August 2023. Retrieved 26 September 2020.
^"Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest — Sherpa Tenzing Norgay Nepalese Mountaineer- Information on Tenzing Norgay". tenzingasianholidays.com. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
^Douglas, Ed (24 December 2000). "Secret past of the man who conquered Everest". The Observer. Archived from the original on 26 August 2014. Retrieved 22 August 2014.
^Morris, Jan (14 June 1999). "The Conquerors HILLARY & TENZING". TIME. Archived from the original on 16 January 2008. Retrieved 21 February 2014.
^"TIME 100 Persons of The Century". TIME. 6 June 1999. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
TenzingNorgay GM OSN (/ˈtɛnzɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to...
Jamling TenzingNorgay (born 23 April 1965) is an Indian Sherpa mountaineer. Norgay is the son of mountaineer and guide TenzingNorgay (who first climbed...
The TenzingNorgay Central Bus Terminus is one of the largest and most important bus terminals in North Bengal. It is located on Hill Cart Road, Siliguri...
reach the top. TenzingNorgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented ascent of Everest in 1953, using the southeast ridge route. Norgay had reached...
called Norgay Montes by the New Horizons team, but that name was later changed from Norgay to Tenzing. On 7 September 2017, the name Tenzing Montes was...
The TenzingNorgay National Adventure Award, formerly known as the National Adventure Awards is the highest adventure sports honour of the Republic of...
runs a trekking company "Tenzing Asian Holidays". In May 2013 Tashi Tenzing said he believed his grandfather TenzingNorgay should have been knighted...
and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer TenzingNorgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount...
ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed to have succeeded when TenzingNorgay and Edmund Hillary reached the summit on 29 May 1953. Led by Colonel...
Kathmandu to deliver the news, only to die a few weeks later. Norgay's son Jamling TenzingNorgay also climbed Everest in honor of his father with the mountaineers...
1912 First to the summit of Mt. Everest (1953) – Sir Edmund Hillary & TenzingNorgay, elected honorary members 1953 First to the deepest point in the ocean...
series' eightieth episode. The series stars Dove Cameron, Joey Bragg, TenzingNorgay Trainor, Kali Rocha, Benjamin King, and Lauren Lindsey Donzis. A significant...
format footage of the summit. On Breashears' team was Jamling TenzingNorgay, the son of Norgay, following in his father's footsteps for the first time. Also...
The TenzingNorgay National Adventure Award, formerly known as National Adventure Awards, is the highest adventure sports honour of Republic of India....
philanthropist, He is the son of Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with mountaineer TenzingNorgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. When Peter...
organized sport in India. The first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by TenzingNorgay and Edmund Hillary sparked a keen interest in establishing mountaineering...
(29,031.7 ft) above sea level. The first official ascent was made by TenzingNorgay and Sir Edmund Hillary. They reached the mountain's peak in 1953. Whether...
Retrieved 6 January 2022. Douglas, Ed (2003). Tenzing: Hero of Everest, a Biography of TenzingNorgay - Ed Douglas - Google Books. National Geographic...
Everest. Led by, Edouard Wyss-Dunant, the expedition, which included TenzingNorgay, reached a height of 8,595 metres (28,199 ft) on the southeast ridge...
Look up Norgay in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Norgay is a Sherpa name may refer to: TenzingNorgay (1915–1986) (for whom it was a given name, often...
24 February 1997) was a Swiss mountaineer who together with Sherpa TenzingNorgay reached an altitude of 8611 metres (just 237 metres from the summit)...
on October 4, 2022. In January 2024, she posthumously received the TenzingNorgay National Adventure Award, the highest honor in adventure sports in India...
"Nepal's mountaineering fraternity happy over Pluto mountains named after TenzingNorgay Sherpa - Nepal's First Landmark In The Solar System". The Himalayan...
leader of the friend group Bryana Salaz as Ines, Gloria's younger sister TenzingNorgay Trainor as Cameron, the only male in the friend group who is a proud...
ISBN 978-0955660108.. TenzingNorgay (told to and written by James Ramsey Ullman) (1955). Man of Everest – The Autobiography of Tenzing. George Harrap & Co...
1953 British expedition to Mount Everest on which Edmund Hillary and TenzingNorgay made the first ascent of the mountain. In 1955, he and Joe Brown were...
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