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	Tenzing Norgay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tenzing also took part in other climbs in various parts of the Indian subcontinent, and for a time in the early 1940s he lived in what is now Pakistan; he said that the most difficult climb he ever took part in was on Nanda Devi East, where a number of people were killed.
		Tenzing and Hillary were the first people to conclusively set their feet on the summit of Mount Everest, but journalists were persistently repeating the question which of the two men had the right to the glory of being the first one, and who was merely the second, the follower.
		Tenzing stressed the unity of such teams and of their achievements, shrugged off the allegation of being ever pulled by anyone, but disclosed that Hillary was the first to put his foot on the summit.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tenzing_Norgay (768 words)

	Jamling Tenzing Norgay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He is the son of Tenzing Norgay, who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953, and his third wife.
		Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later followed in his father's footsteps and climbed Everest in 1996 with a team lead by David Breashears that also included mountaineer Ed Viesturs, an experience documented in the 1998 IMAX film, Everest.
		Norgay's book was the first to discuss from the Sherpas' point of view the disastrous May 1996 climbing season, in which nineteen climbers died.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jamling_Tenzing_Norgay (202 words)

	The Sherpas of Everest Series: Tenzing Norgay Sherpa
		Tenzing also discovered that, while at the end of the expedition the other Sherpas were happy to collect their pay and return home, he was disappointed that it had been merely an exploratory mission and that they had not taken advantage of the fine weather to venture higher onto the mountain.
		Tenzing was off again on the march through Sikkim and into Tibet, past the Rongbuk Monastery and up to base camp and again Tenzing’s father made the trek over the Nangpa La from Nepal to visit his son.
		Tenzing was a proud and capable man even though he lacked many of the skills taken for granted by educated men, but this period in his life demonstrated that things were not easy for a Sherpa, especially in the hard times created by the war.
	www.everesthistory.com /sherpas/tenzingnorgay.htm (5404 words)

	Tenzing Norgay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edmund Hillary[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to reach the summit.
		Raymond lambert is a swiss mountain climber, who with sherpa tenzing norgay reached an altitude of 8611 metres (just 237 metres from the summit) of mount everest...
		Jamling tenzing norgay is the son of tenzing norgay, the sherpa who completed the first successful summit climb of mt....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/te/tenzing_norgay.htm (1092 words)

	Tenzing Norgay, , Legends, Tenzing Norgay profile, He was the first to scale Everest. Better still, he helped create a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tenzing Norgay,, Legends, Tenzing Norgay profile, He was the first to scale Everest.
		For Tenzing, born in Thami village of the Everest region - an 11th child of 13 children - it spelt a kind of wondrous stardom.
		Tenzing was probably happiest away from the crowds and politics.
	www.4to40.com /legends/index.asp?article=legends_tenzing (580 words)

	Chessler Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Without Tenzing, the Swiss would have been first in 1956!In 1953, Tenzing Norgay was at the heart of the successful British Everest expedition as leader of the Sherpas whose hard work brought victory and as one of the two lead climbers to reach the top.
		Tenzing and Hillary were the first people to set their feet on the summit of Mount Everest, but journalists were persistently repeating the question which of the two men had the right to the glory of being the first one, and who was merely the second, the follower.
		Tenzing's account a few years later sounded very different: he stressed the unity of such teams and of their achievements, shrugged off the allegation of being ever pulled by anyone, but disclosed that Hillary was the first to put his foot on the summit.
	www.chesslerbooks.com /eCart/viewItem.asp?idProduct=207 (1462 words)

	Tenzing Norgay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tenzing Norgay (May 15 1914 - May 9 1986) was a Sherpa of Nepal a participant in many expeditions to Mount Everest culminating in the first successful ascent Sir John Hunt's expedition of 1953.
		Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit.
		As of 2003 the company is run by his Jamling Tenzing Norgay who himself reached the of Everest in 1996.
	www.freeglossary.com /Tenzing_Norgay (209 words)

	Tenzing Norgay Sherpa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		By the early 1950s, its people were beginning at last to feel their own strength and identity, and Tenzing, by achieving a goal that the whole world recognized as one of its highest, provided a focus for a new kind of pride and a new view of the future.
		Symbolically as well as literally, Tenzing on Everest was a man against the sky, virtually the first humbly born Asian in all history to attain world stature and world renown.
		Tenzing, whose name was changed by a high lama from Namgyal Wangdi to the name we know him by today ("Norgay" means "fortunate"), always believed himself to have a special luck and favor.
	www.tenzing-norgay.com /pages/tenzingnorgaysherpa.html (1355 words)

	Tribuneindia... The fact File
		Tenzing Norgay, called Namgyal Wagundi as a child, was born in May, 1914, in Sola Khumbu, Nepal.
		Tenzing’s daughter had given him a packet of sweets and a red and blue pencil, which he lay in the snow along with a small crucifix which Hillary had given him.
		Tenzing was awarded medals and also honoured by the King of Nepal.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99nov13/saturday/fact.htm (585 words)

	P A U L I T E . W E B - Paulite On Everest
		Tenzing spoke no French and Lambert no Nepali and little English - and yet, from the moment they met, there was a bond between these two men which even Everest could not break.
		Tenzing had climbed with Dittert in the Indian Himalaya in 1947 and was their first choice for sirdar on the expedition.
		Tenzing collapsed on his return to Kathmandu and was taken by the Swiss to a mission hospital in Patna where he spent weeks convalescing before his return home to Darjeeling.
	www.zubin.com /paulites/tashi_dream.htm (1628 words)

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		Tenzing Norgay died in 1986, as one of India's most honored citizens.
		Tenzing Norgay's son Jamling, who climbed Mount Everest in 1996, says there was a special bond between his father and Mr.
		Hillary says he and Tenzing Norgay were the lucky ones, because they could pick their own path and never had to walk in other people's footsteps.
	www.help-for-you.com /news/May2003/scripts/3e198fa2.html (450 words)

	Tenzing Norgay GM
		Tenzing Norgay GM Tenzing Norgay, (1914–1986) went to Everest as a high-altitude porter on the 1935, 1936, and 1938 Expeditions.
		Born in the village of Moyey in Tibet, raised in Nepal, and a resident of India for most of his life, Tenzing never learnt to read or write, but had an active mind and was fluent in several languages.
		Kinzom, Tenzing Norgay’s mother greeted her son, Tenzing Norgay on his arrival with the 1953 Expedition at Thyangboche monastery.
	imagingeverest.rgs.org /Concepts/Virtual_Everest/-116.html (346 words)

	Jamling Tenzing Norgay Motivational Speaker
		Norgay is the tenth person in the Norgay family to stand at the top of the world.
		Jamling Tenzing Norgay was born in Darjeeling, India and by age six had already begun to show a penchant for climbing.
		Breashears thought Norgay was a perfect choice to represent the culture of the Sherpa people, and to continue the legend of his father.
	www.everestspeakersbureau.com /jamlingtenzingnorgay.htm (1521 words)

	CNN.com - Transcript: Jamling Tenzing Norgay - Feb. 21, 2003
		Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of Tenzing Norgay.
		Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first men known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
		A sherpa by blood, Tenzing Norgay once told his son, ''I climbed Mount Everest so that you wouldn't have to''.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/02/21/talkasia.Norgay.script (2533 words)

	Everyone Has An Everest - Bios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		During that expedition, Norgay climbed to a height of The summit of Everest is 29,035 feet.
		The following year, Tenzing Norgay along with Edmund Hillary, a mountain climber from New Zealand, were recruited by the British to co-lead an Everest expedition.
		Tenzing Norgay became the first Field Director of the Located in Darjeeling India, the HMI teaches everything you need to know about high altitude climbing.
	www.steponline.com /everest/tenzing_norgay.asp (489 words)

	NOVA Online \| Everest \| Tiger of the Snows: Tenzing Norgay
		When Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1953 with New Zealander Edmund Hillary, he had no idea how his life would change.
		From that moment on, Tenzing became an ambassador for his people, the high altitude Sherpas of Darjeeling and the Khumbu.
		Although he spoke 7 languages, Tenzing never learned how to write; however he wrote several books by dictation, and they provide a timeless account of an era when the high Himalayan frontiers were still unexplored.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/everest/history/norgay.html (504 words)

	Swiss Everest 50th Anniversary Expedition 1952-2002
		Tenzing Norgay’s third wife was Daku, who worked as field staff for Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Darjeeling.
		Tenzing and Hillary became close friends late in life when Tenzing was ill in Delhi and Ed was NZ High Commissioner to India.
		Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest by Tashi Tenzing, Judy Tenzing, Dalai Lama
	www.k2news.com /e2002swiss.htm (756 words)

	Amazon.ca: Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In a spectacular and mesmerizing narrative, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the climbing leader for the IMAX film expedition on Mount Everest, details the ill-fated 1996 summer climbing season (made famous by Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air) and deftly weaves in the history, politics, triumphs, and tragedies of climbing the world's tallest mountain.
		Norgay is intent on the accomplishments and experiences of his legendary father, Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who first reached the summit with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, and commendably shares his most private and human thoughts while retracing his father's greatest path.
		Norgay is the son of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa who accompanied Edmund Hillary on the first successful attempt of the summit of Mount Everest.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0062516884 (1336 words)

	Tenzing & The Sherpas of the Everest
		Tenzing And The Sherpas of the Everest by Judy & Tashi Tenzing
		For their part, says Tenzing, Sherpas were bewildered by Westerners' "fascination with these high, cold, dangerous places where the gods lived and men should not venture." Buddhist lamas, consulted before Englishman George Mallory's 1924 Everest expedition, told the Sherpas not to set foot on the summit, because calamity would befall their communities.
		Rich with photographs,.a family tree of the Tenzings and a map, this book is full of insights into the lives of the Sherpas and their history, not to mention the insight it gives into the life of Tenzing Norgay.
	www.sawf.org /newedit/edit05132002/bookreview.asp (1275 words)

	Doubts About Tenzing Norgay's Sherpaness : Was He A Nepali, An Indian Or A Tibetan? May Be, All In One [ Newslook ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Edward claims in his book that Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, the the co-conqueror of Mt Everest with Sir with Sir Edmund Hillary, was in fact not a Sherpa, not a Nepalese but a Tibetan-born.
		Following Tenzing's victory of the highest peak, and even before he settled in India, the "Tiger of the Snows" became a subject of controvery between the two countries.
		Nepalis can harldy imagine Tenzing to be a native of Tibet, despite the fact that Sherpas are origninally the descendents of Tibetans from the eastern Kham province, who migrated to Eastern Nepal hills in the 15th century.
	www.newslookmag.com /exclusives/da_norgay.htm (1111 words)

	Mount Everest Expedition 1953
		Raymond Lambert made two attempts in both the spring and the autumn and, with Tenzing Norgay at his side, reached the highest point on the mountain to date.
		Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary had reached the highest point on the earth.
		Tenzing Norgay on the summit of Mount Everest at 11.30 a.m.
	imagingeverest.rgs.org /Concepts/Virtual_Everest/-75.html (613 words)

	Amazon.ca: Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Tenzing, who is married to an Australian (who collaborated on this book) and lives in Australia, is conflicted over the modern world's effects on the Sherpas.
		This book written by a grandson of Tenzing Norgay, the most renown Sherpa, and his wife living in Sydney is very unique, as all other previously published books on Everest expeditions or anthropology of Sherpas were written by so-called "non-Sherpa" mountaineers born and grown-up outside of Himalaya region.
		The 1953 great success by the sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand in reaching the summit of Everest for the first time opened the "golden" age of Himalaya trekking, and changed dramatically the way of life in Sherpas' community, better or worse, depending on the given aspects.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0071381805 (775 words)

	Touching My Father's Soul : A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest
		Jamling Tenzing Norgay was born on April 23, 1965, in Darjeeling, India, the fourth of six children.
		As Climbing Leader of the famed David Breashears IMAX expedition, Norgay was able to follow in the footsteps of his legendary mountaineer father, Tenzing Norgay.
		For the Norgays, climbing this mountain and living in its shadow is about living with the mountain, not fighting against it.
	www.k2news.com /tnb.htm (896 words)

	Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award
		Synopsys Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award Tenzing Norgay dedicated 20 years of his life to conquering Mount Everest, a feat that had never been accomplished before and that many believed was impossible.
		Tenzing Norgay was critical to Hillary's successful climb.
		The Tenzing Norgay Interoperability Achievement Award will be presented to the EDA company whose work to make their products interoperable was critical to designers' success.
	www.synopsys.com /cgi-bin/tapin/tnorgay/nominate.cgi (197 words)

	NOVA Online \| Everest \| Tenzing Norgay (2)
		There was much controversy and political intrigue after Tenzing's summit of Everest, as the Nepalese government wanted him to claim he was Nepalese and the Indian government wanted him to say he was an Indian citizen.
		Jamling carries with him a copy of his father's book, Tiger of the Snows, The Autobiography of Tenzing of Everest, so he can read his father's vivid account of his historic first ascent of Everest while he, too, is on the mountain.
		Tenzing's words gradually carry him up Everest toward the summit: "We are back among the snowy humps.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/nova/everest/history/norgay2.html (623 words)

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