Editing Tenzing Norgay (section)

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{{Short description|Nepalese-Indian mountaineer (1914–1986)}}
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{{Infobox mountaineer
| name             = Tenzing Norgay
| image            = Tenzing Norgay (cropped).jpg
| caption          = Norgay in [[Stockholm]], 1967
| birth_name       = Namgyal Wangdi
| main_discipline  = [[Mountaineer]]
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1914|5||df=y}} 
| birth_place      = {{nowraplinks|[[Tengboche]], Sagarmatha Zone, [[Kingdom of Nepal|Nepal]], or Tse Chu,<!--or Tsa-chu ("near the great mountain of Makalu", see File:Map of Kharta region, east of Mount Everest.svg)--> [[Ü-Tsang]], [[Tibet (1912–1951)|Tibet]]}}
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1986|5|9|1914|5|df=y}} <!-- see below for discussion of birth date -->
| death_place      = [[Darjeeling]], West Bengal, India
| nationality      = {{hlist|Nepalese|Indian}} 
| start_age        = 19 years
| start_discipline = Porter
| notable_ascents  = First ascent of [[Mount Everest]], May 1953
| partnerships     = [[Edmund Hillary]]
| spouse           = {{ubl|{{marriage|Dawa Phuti|1935|1944|end=d.}}|{{marriage|Ang Lahmu|1945|1964|end=d.}}|Dakku (m. before or in 1964)}}
| children         = 7, including {{enum|[[Jamling Tenzing Norgay|Jamling]]|{{#ifexist: Norbu Tenzing Norgay|[[Norbu Tenzing Norgay|Norbu]]<ref>* {{cite web |title=A Lofty Legacy |url=https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2020/03/lofty-legacy |website=UNH Today |publisher=[[University of New Hampshire]] |access-date=23 July 2022 |language=en |date=10 March 2020 |archive-date=1 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221201132918/https://www.unh.edu/unhtoday/2020/03/lofty-legacy |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |last1=Flinn |first1=John |title=Connected to the Khumbu / Tenzing Norgay's son, Norbu, and Richard Blum exemplify the Bay Area's rich shared history with Mount Everest and its denizens. This month marks 50 years since the mountain's first conquering |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Connected-to-the-Khumbu-Tenzing-Norgay-s-son-2647299.php |access-date=23 July 2022 |work=SFGATE |date=18 May 2003 |archive-date=21 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221221154120/https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Connected-to-the-Khumbu-Tenzing-Norgay-s-son-2647299.php |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |last1=Clash |first1=Jim |title=Son Of Tenzing Norgay Calls For Better Climbing Benefits For The Sherpa Community |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2017/06/15/son-of-tenzing-norgay-calls-for-better-climbing-benefits-for-the-sherpa-community/ |access-date=23 July 2022 |work=Forbes |language=en |archive-date=23 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723145155/https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2017/06/15/son-of-tenzing-norgay-calls-for-better-climbing-benefits-for-the-sherpa-community/ |url-status=live }}
* {{cite news |title=Sherpa: Norbu Tenzing on the Everest 'circus' and the inevitability of another disaster |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/30/sherpa-norbu-tenzing-on-the-everest-circus-and-the-inevitability-of-another-disaster |access-date=23 July 2022 |work=[[the Guardian]] |date=30 March 2016 |language=en |archive-date=23 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220723145146/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/30/sherpa-norbu-tenzing-on-the-everest-circus-and-the-inevitability-of-another-disaster |url-status=live }}</ref>}}}}
| relatives        = [[Tashi Tenzing]] (grandson)<br>[[Tenzing Norgay Trainor]] (grandson)<br>[[Nawang Gombu]] (nephew)
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| signature        = Tenzing Norgay signature.svg}}
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'''Tenzing Norgay''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GM}} {{post-nominals|list=[[Order of the Star of Nepal|OSN]]}} ({{IPAc-en|'|t|ɛ|n|z|ɪ|ŋ|_|'|n|ɔːr|ɡ|eɪ}}; {{langx|xsr|བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས}} ''tendzin norgyé''; May 1914&nbsp;– 9 May 1986), born '''Namgyal Wangdi''',<!--need Sherpa language text--> and also referred to as '''Sherpa Tenzing''',<ref>{{cite book |last1=Norgay |first1=Jamling Tenzing |last2=Coburn |first2=Broughton |title=Touching My Father's Soul: In the Footsteps of Sherpa Tenzing |date=2002 |publisher=Ebury Press |isbn=978-0-09-188467-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tiQ30qkDseEC |language=en |access-date=26 September 2020 |archive-date=28 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828072052/https://books.google.com/books?id=tiQ30qkDseEC |url-status=live }}</ref> was a Nepalese-Indian [[Sherpa people|Sherpa]] mountaineer.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tenzingasianholidays.com/about-us/history.html |title=Tenzing Norgay and the Sherpas of Everest&nbsp;— Sherpa Tenzing Norgay Nepalese Mountaineer- Information on Tenzing Norgay |publisher=tenzingasianholidays.com |access-date=2 March 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302075925/http://www.tenzingasianholidays.com/about-us/history.html |archive-date=2 March 2014 }}</ref><ref name="The Observer">{{cite news |last1=Douglas |first1=Ed |title=Secret past of the man who conquered Everest |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/24/books.booksnews |access-date=22 August 2014 |work=The Observer |date=24 December 2000 |archive-date=26 August 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140826130643/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/dec/24/books.booksnews |url-status=live }}</ref> On 29 May 1953, he and [[Edmund Hillary]] were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of [[Mount Everest]], as part of the [[1953 British Mount Everest expedition]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Morris |first=Jan |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991255,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080116035143/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,991255,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=16 January 2008 |title=The Conquerors HILLARY & TENZING |magazine=TIME |date=14 June 1999 |access-date=21 February 2014}}</ref> ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' named Norgay one of the [[Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century|100 most influential]] people of the 20th century.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,26473,00.html |title=TIME 100 Persons of The Century | magazine=TIME |date=6 June 1999 |access-date=31 May 2017}}</ref>