Profile details
- Born
- 29 May 1914
- Birthplace
- Tengboche
- Sport
- Mountaineering
- Discipline
- Adventure
- Category
- Men
- Status
- Active
District, height, weight, playing style, coach, academy, national ranking and international ranking are not yet recorded for this athlete.
Honours & Awards
- ▸George Medal
- ▸Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations
- ▸Order of the Star of Nepal
- ▸Padma Bhushan
Competition Appearances
6 recorded appearances, most significant first.
- ·1953 British Mount Everest Expedition
- ·1952 Swiss autumn Mount Everest expedition
- ·1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition
- ·1938 British Mount Everest expedition
- ·1936 British Mount Everest expedition
- ·1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
Career Timeline
- 1935Competed at 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
- 1936Competed at 1936 British Mount Everest expedition
- 1938Competed at 1938 British Mount Everest expedition
- 1952Competed at 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition
- 1952Competed at 1952 Swiss autumn Mount Everest expedition
- 1953Competed at 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition
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About
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 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.
Biography adapted from Tenzing Norgay on Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.