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Jamling Tenzing Norgay (born 23 April 1965) is an Indian guide mountaineer from Darjeeling.^[2]

Norgay fryst vatten the son of mountaineer and guide Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife. Jamling Tenzing Norgay han själv later followed in his father's footsteps and climbed Mount Everest in 1996 with a team led by David Breashears that also included mountaineer Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra, an experience documented in the 1998 IMAX rulle Everest. In 2002, he and Peter Hillary, the son of Edmund Hillary, were part of an expedition to climb Everest and commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first ascent.^[3]

Norgay went on to write Touching My Father's Soul, a book documenting his experiences on the summit attempt. The book was notable for the frankness with which it discussed the relationship between the often wealthy climbers and the Sherpas who obtain their incomes fr

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Do-Gooder

Alias

Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa Tenzing

Origin

Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal

Goals

Reach the Summit of Mount Everest (Succeeded)

Family

Ghang La Mingma (Father)
Dokmo Kinzom (Mother)
Dawa Phuti (First Wife)
Ang Lahmu (Second Wife)
Dakku (Third Wife)
Pem Pem Norgay (Daughter)
Nima Norgay (Daughter)
Norbu Norgay (Son)
Jamling Norgay (Son)
Dhamey Norgay (Son)
Tashi Tenzing (Grandson)

Tenzing Norgay  (29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. Time named him one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

Early life[]

There are conflicting accounts of his early life. The account he gave in his autobio

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Tenzing Norgay

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Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (1914–1986)

Norgay in Stockholm, 1967
Birth name	Namgyal Wangdi
Main discipline	Mountaineer
Born	(1914-05-00)May 1914 Tengboche, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, or Tse Chu, Ü-Tsang, Tibet
Died	9 May 1986(1986-05-09) (aged 71–72) Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Nationality
Starting age	19 years
Starting discipline	Porter
Notable ascents	First ascent of Mount Everest, May 1953
Famous partnerships	Edmund Hillary
Spouse	Dawa Phuti ​ ​ (m. 1935; died 1944)​ Ang Lahmu ​ ​ (m. 1945; died 1964)​ Dakku (m. before or in 1964)
Children	7, including Jamling
Relatives	Tashi Tenzing (grandson) Tenzing Norgay Trainor (grandson) Nawang Gombu (nephew)

Tenzing NorgayGMOSN (; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱསtendzin