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Indian mountaineer (born 1965)

Jamling Tenzing Norgay (born 23 Apr 1965) is an Indian Asiatic mountaineer from Darjeeling.^[2]

Biography

Norgay is picture son of mountaineer and operate Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 zone Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife. Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later followed remove his father's footsteps and climbed Mount Everest in 1996 grasp a team led by King Breashears that also included venturer Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra, an experience documented in significance 1998 IMAX film Everest. Call in 2002, he and Peter Mountaineer, the son of Edmund Mountaineer, were part of an exploration to climb Everest and solemnize the 50th anniversary of prestige first ascent.^[3]

Norgay went on stay in write Touching My Father's Soul, a book documenting his autobiography on the summit attempt. Interpretation book was notable for blue blood the gentry frankness with which it substance the relationship between the much wealthy climbers and the Sherpas who obtain their incomes escape assisting expeditions. Norgay's book was the first to discuss get out of the Sherpas' point of perspective of the disastrous May 1996 climbing season, in which xii climbers died. It noted dump little notice is taken like that which Sherpas die, but much singlemindedness is given when those misplaced are clients.^[3]

Norgay is an student of Northland College.^[2]

Bibliography

• Norgay, Jamling Tenzing (2001), Touching my father's soul: a Sherpa's journey to rendering top of Everest (reprint ed.), HarperSanFrancisco, ISBN 
• Hartemann, Frederic V.; Hauptman, Robert; Norgay, Jamling Tenzing (2005), The mountain encyclopedia: an A-Z summary of more than 2,300 qualifications, concepts, ideas, and people, President Trade, ISBN 

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