biography
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Tenzing Norgay
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known as Sherpa Tenzing
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| male
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| lived:
| (1914–86)
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| biography:
| Mountaineer, born in Tsa-chu, near Makalu, E Nepal. He made his first climb as a porter with a British expedition in 1935, and later climbed many of the Himalayan peaks. In 1953 he succeeded in reaching the Everest summit with Edmund Hillary, for which he was awarded the George Medal. He later became head of the Institute of Mountaineering at Darjeeling. |
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