Tenzing Norgay

/ ˈtɛnsɪŋ ˈnɔːɡeɪ /

noun

1. Tenzing Norgay19141986MNepaleseSPORT AND GAMES: mountaineer 1914–86, Nepalese mountaineer. With Sir Edmund Hillary, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest (1953)

Example Sentences

Many have wondered if his team succeeded in becoming the first people to summit Everest, 29 years before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top.

From BBC

It is home to many record-holding Sherpa mountaineers, including Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first person to climb Mount Everest along with explorer Edmund Hillary.

From BBC

Thame is home to many record-holding Sherpa mountaineers and is also where Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, the first person to climb Mount Everest along with explorer Edmund Hillary, hailed from.

From BBC

The first documented assent came nearly three decades later when New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay scaled the mountain on May 29, 1953.

From Seattle Times

The first people to reach the top of Mount Everest were Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal.

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