Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay
Tenzing Norgay OSN GM, born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. Among the most famous mountain climbers in history, 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...
ProfessionMountain Climber
Date of Birth29 May 1914
CityKhumjung, Nepal
worry long mountain
It has been a long road. From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax.
trouble everest climbs
If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest.
mountain living-my-life climbing-mount-everest
I have climbed my mountain, but I must still live my life.
men shame climbing-mount-everest
If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame.
To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.
stronger earth force
I needed to go . . . the pull of Everest was stronger for me than any force on earth.
dream real men
We look up. For weeks, for months, that is all we have done. Look up. And there it is-the top of Everest. Only it is different now: so near, so close, only a little more than a thousand feet above us. It is no longer just a dream, a high dream in the sky, but a real and solid thing, a thing of rock and snow, that men can climb. We make ready. We will climb it. This time, with God's help, we will climb on to the end.