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Jamling Tenzing Norgay with Dalai Lama. Jamling Tenzing Norgay (born 23 April 1965) is a Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer. Biography. Norgay is the son of Nepali Sherpa mountaineer and guide Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife.
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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.[need quotation to verify] According to many later accounts, including a...
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 Swiss expeditions 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 fell 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 consider him the climbing partne...
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 Awardafter 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 Airportin 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 Tenzingis named in his honour.
Animals
1. Red pandasat several zoos are named in his honour.
Relatives of Tenzing Norgay: 1. Nawang Gombu Sherpa 2. Jamling Tenzing Norgay 3. Tashi Tenzing 4. Lobsang Tshering
Tony Astill, Mount Everest The Reconnaissance 1935(2005)George Band, Everest Exposed(2005), an account of the 1953 expeditionGill, Michael (2017). Edmund Hillary: A Biography. Nelson, NZ: Potton & Burton. ISBN 978-0-947503-38-3.Hunt, John (1953). The Ascent of Everest. London: Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 0-89886-361-9. (The Conquest of Everestin America)- Namgyal Wangdi
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Jul 17, 2023 · Tenzing Norgay: The Mountaineer Who Refused to be Categorized. By remaining vague about his own biography, Norgay called into question the idea of nationhood and made a deafening point about actions speaking louder than words. Tenzing Norgay, 1953. Getty. By: Imogen Lepere. July 17, 2023. 4 minutes.
Feb 26, 2021 · By Mary-Anne Denison-Pender. View Slideshow. Climber Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of the first person to summit Everest alongside Edmund Hillary, now leads the effort to clean up the peaks with Swiss fashion house Bally.
May 14, 2002 · Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest. Paperback – May 14, 2002. by Jamling T Norgay (Author) 4.5 181 ratings. See all formats and editions. In a story of Everest unlike any told before, Jamling Tenzing Norgay gives us an insider's view of the Sherpa world.
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May 17, 2002 · May 17, 200212:00 AM ET. Heard on Fresh Air. 20-Minute Listen. Playlist. He's also the son of Tenzing Norgay, one of the first men in history to summit Mt. Everest. In his book, Touching My...
Aug 3, 2023 · Jamling Tenzing Norgay, aged 46, describes the solitude of climbing like being on the moon, possibly discouraging those with lofty aspirations. He has a unique perspective, being the 10th member of the Norgay family to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
