Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986), Nepalese mountain climber of the Sherpa tribe, born in eastern Nepal. He moved to Dārjiling (Darjeeling), India, in the early 1930s and participated in a number of British, French, and Swiss mountaineering expeditions between 1935 and 1952. In the latter year he set a record by climbing 8600 m (28,215 ft) of Mount Everest (8848 m/29,028 ft), the highest mountain in the world. On May 29, 1953, as members of a British party, Tenzing Norgay and the New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary became the first persons to scale the summit of Mount Everest. In 1954 the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute was established in Dārjiling, and Tenzing Norgay became its director of field training; at his death, he was an advisor. His autobiography, Tiger of the Snows, was published in 1955.
Tenzing Norgay (1914-1986), Nepalese mountain climber of the Sherpa tribe, born in eastern Nepal. He moved to Dārjiling (Darjeeling), India, in the early 1930s and participated in a number of British, French, and Swiss mountaineering expeditions between 1935 and 1952. In the latter year he set a record by climbing 8600 m (28,215 ft) of Mount Everest (8848 m/29,028 ft), the highest mountain in the world. On May 29, 1953, as members of a British party, Tenzing Norgay and the New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary became the first persons to scale the summit of Mount Everest. In 1954 the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute was established in Dārjiling, and Tenzing Norgay became its director of field training; at his death, he was an advisor. His autobiography, Tiger of the Snows, was published in 1955.
