Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay
	Norgay in Stockholm, 1967
Personal information
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
Nationality	Nepalese; Indian;
Career
Starting age	19 years
Starting discipline	Porter
Notable ascents	First ascent of Mount Everest, May 1953
Famous partnerships	Edmund Hillary
Family
Spouse	Dawa Phuti (m. 1935; died 1944); Ang Lahmu (m. 1945; died 1964); Dakku (m. before or in 1964);
Children	7, including Jamling
Signature

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. He was one of the first two people known to certainly reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

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