Tenzing Norgay was born on 29th May 1914 in Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and he died on 9th May 1986 (aged 72 years) in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India. The first man along with Edmund Hillary to have climbed Mount Everest, Tenzing was a Nepalese mountaineer of Tibetian descent who worked as a porter. He became the organiser of Sherpa guides and was a part of a number of other expeditions that had tried to summit Mount Everest but their expeditions did not succeed. Tenzing participated as a high-altitude porter in three official British attempts to climb Everest from the northern Tibetan side.
Do you know: Tenzing was awarded Britain’s George Medal and the Star of Nepal by the Nepalese government for this feat.
