Tenzing Norgay
Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer (1914-1986)
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Updated 2026-05-29
Reached the top of Everest on May 29, 1953—alongside Edmund Hillary, making them the first confirmed summiteers. Tenzing Norgay became the Sherpa whose name got stamped into mountaineering history and Time's 20th-century influencers list.
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Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. 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. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
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