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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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tenzing Norgay is the 2nd most popular mountaineer (up from 3rd in 2019), the 4th most popular biography from Nepal (down from 2nd in 2019) 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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Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Tenzing Norgay ranks 2 out of 56. Before him are Edmund Hillary. After him are Reinhold Messner, Heinrich Harrer, Andrew Irvine, Junko Tabei, Horace Bénédict de Saussure, George Mallory, Wanda Rutkiewicz, Jerzy Kukuczka, Jacques Balmat, and Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1914, Tenzing Norgay ranks 10. Before him are Hedy Lamarr, Tove Jansson, Alan Hodgkin, Thor Heyerdahl, Mohammed Zahir Shah, and Tyrone Power. After him are Marguerite Duras, Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, Alec Guinness, and Jiang Qing. Among people deceased in 1986, Tenzing Norgay ranks 9. Before him are Wallis Simpson, Vyacheslav Molotov, Olof Palme, Andrei Tarkovsky, Cary Grant, and Mircea Eliade. After him are Jiddu Krishnamurti, James Rainwater, Robert S. Mulliken, Jean Genet, Frank Herbert, and Urho Kekkonen.

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In Nepal

Among people born in Nepal, Tenzing Norgay ranks 4 out of 59. Before him are Gautama Buddha (-566), Yaśodharā (-600), and Maya (-600). After him are Mahapajapati Gotami (-600), Bidhya Devi Bhandari (1961), KP Sharma Oli (1952), Pushpa Kamal Dahal (1954), Rāhula (-534), Śuddhodana (-590), Chandra Bahadur Dangi (1939), and Ram Chandra Poudel (1944).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Nepal

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

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