Tenzing Norgay was born on 29 May 1914 in Tengboche. A Sherpa mountaineer of Nepalese or Tibetan origin, Tenzing Norgay was born in the Himalayan region and began working as a porter on expeditions as a young man. On 29 May 1953 he and the New Zealand beekeeper Edmund Hillary became the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, as members of a British expedition led by John Hunt. Having taken part in several earlier attempts, he was famed for his skill and endurance. He later became the director of field training at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, and he lived the rest of his life in India.
Before and after
- 1914Establishment of Swiss National Park
- 1914Sayfo
- 31 March 1914Birth of Octavio Paz
- 20 April 1914Ludlow Massacre
- 29 May 1914Birth of Tenzing Norgay
- 2 June 1914Birth of Yuri Andropov
- 28 June 1914Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- 21 July 1914Discovery of Sinope
- from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918World War I
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