.jpg) Norgay in Stockholm, 1967 | |
| Personal information | |
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| Birth name | Namgyal Wangdi |
| Main discipline | Mountaineer |
| Born | May 1914 Tengboche, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, or Tse Chu, Ü-Tsang, Tibet |
| Died | 9 May 1986 (aged 71–72) Darjeeling, West Bengal, India |
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| Career | |
| Starting age | 19 years |
| Starting discipline | Porter |
| Notable ascents | First ascent of Mount Everest, May 1953 |
| Famous partnerships | Edmund Hillary |
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| Children | 7, including Jamling |
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Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (/ˈtɛnzɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin 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] On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition.[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.