Tenzing Norgay
May 29, 1914 –May 9, 1986
Explorer, Mountain guide, Autobiographer, Mountaineer
Lived 71 years
- Born in
- Tengboche
- Passed away in
- Darjeeling
Tenzing Norgay (; 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 people 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.
Awards: George Medal, Padma Bhushan, Order of the Star of Nepal, Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations
Source: Wikipedia — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing_Norgay