| Tenzing Norgay AKA Namgyal Wangdi Born: 15-May-1914
Birthplace: Tshechu, Tibet
Died: 9-May-1986
Location of death: Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Cremated
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: Asian/Indian
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Explorer Nationality: Nepal
Executive summary: With Edmund Hilllary on Everest With Edmund Hillary, one of the first two men to set foot on Everest's summit.
Wife: (d., one son, two daughters)
Daughter: Nima
Daughter: Pem Pem
Son: (d. in infancy)
Wife: Ang Lahmu
Wife: (#3, bigamous)
Son: Jamling Tenzing Norgay (with #3, ascended Everest in 1996)
Summited Mount Everest (29-May-1953)
Explorers Club
Bengali-Bangladesh Ancestry
Asteroid Namesake 6481 Tenzing
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Beyond the Edge (6-Sep-2013) · Himself
The Conquest of Everest (1953) · Himself
Is the subject of books:
Tenzing: Hero of Everest, 2003, BY: Ed Douglas
Author of books:
Man of Everest (1955, memoir, with James Ramsey Ullman)
After Everest (1978, memoir, as told to Malcolm Barnes)
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