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By Carl Samson. 5 days ago. Nepalese Indian mountaineer Tenzing Norgay played an equally crucial role in the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. Despite this monumental achievement, his...
- Early Life
- Mountaineering
- 1952 Swiss Mount Everest Expedition
- Success on Mount Everest
- After Everest
- Honours
- Personal Life and Death
- Legacy
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There are conflicting accounts of Tenzing's early life. In his autobiography, he wrote that he was a Sherpa born and raised in Tengboche, Khumbu, in northeastern Nepal. In a 1985 interview with All India Radio, he said his parents came from Tibet, but that he was born in Nepal. According to many later accounts, including a book co-written by his so...
Norgay received his first opportunity to join an Everest expedition at age 20, when Eric Shipton was assembling the 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. After two other prospective team members failed their medical tests, Norgay was pushed forward by his friend Ang Tharkay, a Sherpa sirdar who had been on the 1933 British Mount Eve...
In 1952, he took part in the two Swissexpeditions led by Edouard Wyss-Dunant (spring) and Gabriel Chevalley (autumn), the first serious attempts to climb Everest from the southern (Nepalese) side, after two previous US and British reconnaissance expeditions in 1950 and 1951. Raymond Lambert and Tenzing Norgay were able to reach a height of about 8,...
In 1953, Tenzing Norgay took part in John Hunt's expedition; Tenzing had previously been to Everest six times (and Hunt three). A member of the team was Edmund Hillary, who had a near-miss following a fall into a crevassebut was saved from hitting the bottom by Norgay's prompt action in securing the rope using his ice axe, which led Hillary to cons...
Tenzing Norgay became the first Director of Field Training of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, when it was set up in 1954. In January 1975, with permission of the King of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, Norgay served as sirdar (guide) for the first American tourist party allowed into the country. Brought together by a company t...
In 1938, after Norgay's third Everest expeditionas a porter, the Himalayan Club awarded him its Tiger Medal for high-altitude work. On 7 June 1953, it was announced that the newly crowned Queen Elizabeth II wished to recognize Norgay's achievements. 10 Downing Street announced on 1 July that, following consultation with the governments of India and...
Norgay was married three times. His first wife, Dawa Phuti, died young in 1944. They had a son, Nima Dorje, who died at the age of four, and two daughters: Pem Pem, whose son, Tashi Tenzing, climbed Everest, and Nima, who married a Filipino graphic designer, Noli Galang. Norgay's second wife was Ang Lahmu, a cousin of his first wife. They had no bi...
Awards
1. In 2003, commemorating the golden jubilee of Norgay's summit of Everest, Indian government renamed its highest adventure sports award, the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award after him.
Places
1. One of the buildings at Everest Court, Mottingham in Kent, Englandis named after him. 2. In January 2008, Lukla Airport was renamed Tenzing–Hillary Airport in honour of the pair and their achievement. 3. Tenzing Montes is the name of an icy mountain range on the surface of Pluto. 4. Minor planet 6481 Tenzing is named in his honour.
Animals
1. Red pandasat several zoos are named in his honour.
In Spanish: Tenzing Norgay para niñosRelatives of Tenzing Norgay: 1. Nawang Gombu Sherpa 2. Jamling Tenzing Norgay 3. Tashi Tenzing 4. Lobsang Tshering
Jamling and Tashi are not father and son, but uncle and nephew, descendants of Tenzing Norgay from his third and first marriages respectively, born within a year of each other in the mid 1960s in Darjeeling, India.
May 17, 2002 · Sherpa Jamling Tenzing Norgay was Climbing Leader for the 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition and summitted the Mountain that year.
May 17, 2002 · Sherpa Jamling Tenzing Norgay was Climbing Leader for the 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition and summitted the Mountain that year. He's also the son of Tenzing Norgay, one of the first men in history to summit Mt. Everest.
Jun 3, 2001 · Tenzing Norgay climbed on Everest six times before making it to the top; he finally reached the summit at age 39. His son Jamling reached it on his first and only attempt with the help of...
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Jul 23, 2001 · We met Jamling, 36, who runs Tenzing Norgay Adventures (www.tenzing-norgay.com) from Darjeeling, India, on a recent trip to the U.S. Now that he's a celebrity, is he rich? Did his father...
