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Jamling Tenzing Norgay (born 23 April 1965) is an Indian Sherpa mountaineer based out of Darjeeling. [2] Biography. Norgay is the son of mountaineer and guide Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife.
Mountaineer Jamling Tenzing Norgay says Mount Everest has “changed a great deal” since his father accompanied Edmund Hillary to the top in 1953.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the “Son of the Everest Pioneer,” did not idle in the shadow of paternal legacies. He is a member of a living dynasty of climbers, with 11 of his relatives summiting Mount Everest. Jamling’s spiritual journey has led him to an attachment to the Himalayan region and its jagged 8000-meter peaks.
In 1978 Norgay founded Tenzing Norgay Adventures, a company providing trekking adventures in the Himalayas. As of 2021, the company was run by his son Jamling Tenzing Norgay, who himself reached the summit of Everest in 1996.
May 29, 2019 · CNN's Kristie Lu Stout talks to Jamling Tenzing Norgay, trek guide and son of the first sherpa to climb Everest, about the rising death toll on the mountain.
Jun 3, 2001 · Like his famous father, Jamling Tenzing Norgay reached the top of the 29, 035-foot peak -- a cathartic climb he recaptures in "Touching My Father's Soul, " a new book that's...
May 17, 2002 · Sherpa Jamling Tenzing Norgay was Climbing Leader for the 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition and summitted the Mountain that year.
