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Bookmark or Share- Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay - 1953 Everest - National GeographicEdmund Hillary (left) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the 29,035-foot summit of Everest on May 29, 1953, becoming the first people to stand atop the world's highest mountain.
- Tenzing Norgay | Biography & Facts | BritannicaTenzing Norgay, Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who in 1953 became, with Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, the first person to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak (approximately 29,035 feet [8,850 meters]).
- Tenzing Norgay - WikipediaTenzing Norgay GM OSN (/ ˈ t ɛ n z ɪ ŋ ˈ n ɔːr ɡ eɪ /; 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.
- Tenzing Norgay - New World EncyclopediaTenzing Norgay George Medal (GM) (May 15, 1914 – May 9, 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese/Tibetan mountaineer. Near his 39th birthday on May 29, 1953, he and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first people known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, propelling him to a status of worldwide fame and glory. Norgay was ...
- Tenzing Norgay: The Mountaineer Who Refused to be CategorizedThe 1940s and ’50s were a time of vast geopolitical shifts in South Asia. Numerous powers — the Chinese Communist regime which invaded Tibet in 1950, Jawaharlal Nehru’s India, Nepal — recognized Norgay as a powerful symbol of national pride and fought to claim him as their own.
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