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Tenzing Norgay

1914 - 1986

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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tenzing Norgay has received more than 4,249,625 page views. His biography is available in 92 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 89 in 2019). Tenzing Norgay is the 3rd most popular mountaineer, the 2nd most popular biography from Nepal and the most popular Nepalese Mountaineer.

Tenzing Norgay is most famous for being the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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  • 70.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 92

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Tenzing Norgay ranks 3 out of 56. Before him are Edmund Hillary, and Reinhold Messner. After him are Heinrich Harrer, George Mallory, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, Junko Tabei, Jerzy Kukuczka, Edward Whymper, Hermann Buhl, Jacques Balmat, and Walter Bonatti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Tenzing Norgay ranks 6. Before him are Louis de Funès, Yuri Andropov, Hedy Lamarr, Tove Jansson, and Thor Heyerdahl. After him are Marguerite Duras, Jiang Qing, Michael Wittmann, Octavio Paz, Julio Cortázar, and Alec Guinness. Among people deceased in 1986, Tenzing Norgay ranks 8. Before him are Wallis Simpson, Jorge Luis Borges, Vyacheslav Molotov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Olof Palme, and Mircea Eliade. After him are Jiddu Krishnamurti, Joseph Beuys, Cliff Burton, Jean Genet, Harold Macmillan, and Frank Herbert.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Tenzing Norgay ranks 2 out of 59. Before him are Gautama Buddha (-566). After him are Yaśodharā (-600), Maya (-600), Rāhula (-534), Śuddhodana (-590), Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Prithvi Narayan Shah (1723), Birendra of Nepal (1945), Gyanendra of Nepal (1947), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), and Ram Baran Yadav (1948).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Nepal

Among mountaineers born in Nepal, Tenzing Norgay ranks 1. After him are Apa Sherpa (1960), Ang Rita (1948), Nirmal Purja (1983), and Lhakpa Sherpa (1974).

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