Nawang Gombu Sherpa

Nawang Gombu
Born(1936-05-01)1 May 1936
Minzu, Kingdom of Tibet[1][2]
Died24 April 2011(2011-04-24) (aged 74)
Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
CitizenshipIndia
Occupation(s)Sherpa, Mountaineer
Known for
  • Being the first person to summit Mount Everest twice (1963, 1965)
  • Being the first Indian to scale Nanda Devi in 1964
RelativesTenzing Norgay (uncle)
Awards
  • Tiger Medal (1953)
  • Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal (1953)
  • Hubbard Medal (1963)
  • Padma Shri (1964)
  • Padma Bhushan (1965)
  • IMF Gold Medal (1966)
  • Arjuna Award (1965)
  • Tenzing Norgay Award (1986)
  • 49th Independence Day Award (1996)
  • Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award (2006)

Nawang Gombu (1 May 1936 – 24 April 2011)[3][4] was a Sherpa mountaineer who was the first man in the world to have climbed Mount Everest twice.

Gombu was born in Minzu, Tibet and later became an Indian citizen, as did many of his relatives including his uncle Tenzing Norgay. He was the youngest Sherpa to reach 26,000 ft. In 1964, he became the first Indian and the third man in the world to summit Nanda Devi (24,645 ft). In 1965, he became the first man in the world to have climbed Mount Everest twice—a record that remained unbroken for almost 20 years. First was with the American Expedition in 1963 as the eleventh man in world and the second was with Indian Everest Expedition 1965 as seventeenth.[5][6][7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ Melinda C. Shepherd, Nawang Gombu at the Encyclopædia Britannica
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference guardian11 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Veteran mountaineer Nawang Gombu dead". The Hindu. 24 April 2011.
  4. ^ Banerjee, Amitava (24 April 2011). "Mountaineer Nawang Gombu passes away". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 10 October 2022.
  5. ^ "Indian Mount Everest Expedition". iStampGallery.com. 15 August 1965.
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  7. ^ "First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-". Youtube. 21 May 2016. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  8. ^ M.S. Kohli. Nine Atop Everest: Spectacular Indian Ascent.
  9. ^ "The first Indians on Everest". Mint.
  10. ^ "Nine Atop Everest". The Himalayan Club.