Tenzing Norgay
Norgay in Stockholm, 1967 | |
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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 |
| Relatives | Tashi Tenzing (grandson) Tenzing Norgay Trainor (grandson) Nawang Gombu (nephew) |
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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, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. 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. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.