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Tenzing NorgayTenzing Norgay (May 15 1914 - May 9, 1986) was a Sherpa of Nepal, a participant in seven expeditions to Mount Everest culminating in the first successful ascent, during Sir John Hunt's expedition of 1953. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to reach the summit. Tenzing grew up in a peasant family in Solo Khumbu in Nepal, very near Mount Everest, which his people knew as "Chomolungma". At the time he climbed Everest it was generally believed that he was born there, but in the 1990s it was claimed that he was actually born in Tibet, but this was hushed up for political reasons. His exact date of birth is uncertain, but he knew roughly what time of year it was from the weather and the crops. He ran away to Kathmandu twice as a boy, and eventually settled in the Sherpa community in Too Song Bhusti in Darjeeling in India. He took part as a high-altitude porter in three official British attempts to climb Everest from the northern Tibetan side in the 1930s, and in a small unofficial attempt just after the Second World War which entered Tibet illegally. He also took part in other climbs in various parts of the Indian sub-continent, and lived for a while in what is now Pakistan; he said that the most difficult climb he ever took part in was on Nanda Devi, where a number of people were killed. In 1952, he took part in two Swiss expeditions led by Raymond Lambert, the first serious attempts to climb Everest from the southern Nepalese side, during which he and Lambert reached the then record height of 8,599 m (28,215 ft). After he climbed Everest, he was met with adulation in India and Nepal, and even literally worshipped by some people who believed he must be an incarnation of Buddha or Siva. Tenzing later became director of field training for the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling. In 1978, he founded a company, Tenzing Norgay Adventures, that offers trekking in the Himalaya. As of 2003, the company is run by his son Jamling Tenzing Norgay, who himself reached the summit of Everest in 1996. Tenzing was married three times. His first wife died young, with her he had a son who died in infancy and two daughters, Nima and Pem Pem. His second wife was Ang Lahmu. He took his third wife while his second wife was still alive, this was allowed by Sherpa custom, and by her he had his son Jamling. References Tenzing Norgay and James Ramsay Ullman, Man of Everest (first published as Tiger of the Snows) After Everest (a second autobiography written by a ghost writer) External link Norgay, Tenzing Norgay, Tenzing Norgay, Tenzing
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