People
Tenzing Norgay
- Name: Tenzing Norgay
- Birthday: 1914-05-20
- Also known as: Namgyal Wangdi,བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས,Tensing,Tenzing Bhotia,Tensing Norkey,Tenzing Sherpa,Dan Shin
- Place of birth: Khumbu, Nepal
- Popularity: 0.5137
Biography:
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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Movies:
| Title | Release date |
|---|---|
| Beyond the Edge as Self (archive footage) | 2013-10-24 |
| High and Hallowed: Everest 1963 as Self (archive footage) | 2013-09-19 |
| Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King as Self (archive footage) | 2003-12-12 |
| The Race for Everest as Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-27 |
| National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain as Self (archive footage) | 2003-05-06 |
| The Dark Side of Everest as Self (archive footage) | 2003-01-01 |
| Everest at Any Cost as Self (archive footage) | 1999-01-01 |
| Hillary and Tenzing: Climbing to the Roof of World as Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-10 |
| The Conquest of Everest 1953 as self (archive footage) | 1997-01-01 |
| The Conquest of Everest as Self | 1953-12-09 |
| Himalayan Epic | 1951-04-18 |
| Everest 1936 - Ruttledge as Self | 1936-01-01 |
