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Tenzing Norgay
Khumbu, Nepal
Tenzing Norgay (/ˈtɛnzɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; 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-…
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Tenzing Norgay (/ˈtɛnzɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; 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.
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2013
Beyond The Edge
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2013
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
The Race for Everest
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2003
The Dark Side of Everest
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1999
Everest At Any Cost
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
Hillary and Tenzing: Climbing to the Roof of World
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1997
The Quest
Movie Self (related character)
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1997
Hillary and Tenzing - Everest and After
Movie self (related characters)
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1993
Everest - Blood, Sweat and Tears
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1953
The Conquest of Everest
Movie Self
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1951
Himalayan Epic
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