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Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)

Tenzing Norgay

1914–1986, born Tengboche, writes in Nepali, Sherpa, autobiographer

Tenzing Norgay, 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 people 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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On Open Library

Touching my father's soul2001Touching my father's soul2002After Everest1977

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Elsewhere

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Also writing in Nepali

Gita Upadhyay

1939–2026educator, writer, and translator from Assam (born 1939)