![]() ![]() ![]() Tenzing was originally called "Namgyal Wangdi", but as a child his name was changed on the advice of the head lama and founder of Rongbuk Monastery, Ngawang Tenzin Norbu. This agrees with Hunt's statement that he was 39 in 1953, and had "established himself (as) not only the foremost climber of his race but as a mountaineer of world standing." His year of birth, according to the Tibetan calendar, was the Year of the Rabbit, making it likely that he was born in 1914. After his ascent of Everest on, he decided to celebrate his birthday on that day thereafter. Īlthough his exact date of birth is unknown, he knew it was in late May by the weather and the crops. Buddhism is the traditional religion of the Sherpas and Tibetans, and Norgay was Buddhist. Khumbu lies near Mount Everest, which the Tibetans and Sherpas call Chomolungma in Standard Tibetan, that name means "Holy Mother," or the goddess of the summit. Norgay went to Nepal as a child to work for a Sherpa family in Khumbu. He spent his early childhood in Kharta, near the north of the country. ![]() According to many later accounts, including a book co-written by his son Jamling Tenzin Norgay, he was born in Tibet, at Tse Chu in the Kama Valley, and grew up in Thame. In a 1985 interview with All India Radio, he said his parents came from Tibet, but that he was born in Nepal. In his autobiography, he wrote that he was a Sherpa born and raised in Tengboche, Khumbu, in northeastern Nepal. There are conflicting accounts of Tenzing's early life. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century. He was one of the first two people known to certainly reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on. Tenzing Norgay GM OSN ( / ˈ t ɛ n z ɪ ŋ ˈ n ɔːr ɡ eɪ/ Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé May 1914 – ), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. ![]()
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