Tenzing Norgay

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Tenzing Norgay

Born 1914-05-20 Khumbu, Nepal 12 films

Tenzing Norgay (/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.

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Filmography

12 films
The Quest poster

The first episode of the 2 part series 'Everest: Mountain of Dreams, Mountain of Doom', includes th…

The Quest

★ 0.0 1997

Himalayan Epic poster

In 1951, the 3rd French expedition to the Himalayas set out to conquer Nanda Devi (7,800 m). The at…

Himalayan Epic

★ 10.0 1951