Editing Tenzing Norgay (section)

==1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition==
{{Main|1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition}}
In 1952, he took part in the two [[Switzerland|Swiss]] expeditions led by [[Edouard Wyss-Dunant]] (spring) and Gabriel Chevalley (autumn), the first serious attempts to climb Everest from the southern (Nepalese) side, after two previous US and British reconnaissance expeditions in 1950 and 1951. Raymond Lambert and Tenzing Norgay were able to reach a height of about {{convert|8595|m|0}} on the southeast ridge, setting a new climbing altitude record.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://imagingeverest.rgs.org/Concepts/Virtual_Everest/-116.html |title=Tenzing Norgay GM |publisher=The Royal Geographical Society |work=Imaging Everest |access-date=21 June 2007 |archive-date=14 April 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070414143647/http://imagingeverest.rgs.org/Concepts/Virtual_Everest/-116.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The expedition opened up a new route on Everest that was successfully climbed the next year. Norgay and [[Raymond Lambert]] reached on 28 May the then-record height of {{convert|8600|m|0}},<ref>{{cite book |title=The Himalayan Database |date=n.d. |page=??? |url=http://www.himalayandatabase.com/index.html |access-date=18 September 2015 |archive-date=17 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150917034422/http://www.himalayandatabase.com/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{failed verification|date=May 2021}} and this expedition, during which Norgay was for the first time considered a full expedition member ("the greatest honour that had ever been paid me") <ref name="Ullman"/> forged a lasting friendship between Norgay and his Swiss friends, in particular Raymond Lambert. During the autumn expedition, the team was stopped by bad weather after reaching an altitude of {{convert|8100|m|0}}.<ref name="Ullman"/>