Tenzing Norgay and Everest 1953

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  1. Norgay first joined an Everest expedition at age 20, when Eric Shipton was assembling the 1935 reconnaissance expedition.Tenzing Norgay
  2. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit at 11:30 am on 29 May 1953.John Hunt, Baron Hunt
  3. Norgay died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Darjeeling on 9 May 1986, aged 71.Tenzing Norgay
  4. At the age of twelve he migrated to Darjeeling in India, where many expeditions selected Sherpa guides and porters.Ang Tharkay
  5. Because of Ang Tharkay, his friend Tenzing Norgay got his first engagement as a Sherpa guide on the 1935 British Everest expedition.Ang Tharkay
  6. Norgay later said he knew Denman had little chance of succeeding but joined because the pull of Everest was stronger for him than any force on earth.Earl Denman
  7. Hunt then directed Hillary and Tenzing to attempt the summit.Edmund Hillary
  8. Norgay and Hillary pitched a tent at 27,900 feet on 28 May while their support group returned down the mountain.Tenzing Norgay
  9. Tenzing left chocolates at the summit as an offering, and Hillary left a cross given to him by John Hunt.Edmund Hillary
  10. Hillary photographed Tenzing with his ice-axe at the summit, but there is no photo of Hillary.Edmund Hillary
  11. Tenzing Norgay became the first Director of Field Training of the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling when it was set up in 1954.Tenzing Norgay
  12. The 1935 Mount Everest expedition was Shipton's first as leader and the first for Tenzing Norgay.Eric Shipton
  13. Base Camp was established on 12 April 1953.John Hunt, Baron Hunt
  14. The first summit pair, Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans, set out on 26 May but turned back exhausted high on the mountain.John Hunt, Baron Hunt
  15. On 6 June 1953 Hillary was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.Edmund Hillary
  16. Hunt named two summit teams: Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans, and Hillary and Tenzing.Edmund Hillary
  17. The final obstacle was a 40-foot rock face later called the Hillary Step.Edmund Hillary
  18. They reached the 29,028 ft summit at 11:30 am.Edmund Hillary
  19. The first person they met on the descent was Lowe.Edmund Hillary
  20. Ullman was the ghost writer for Tenzing Norgay's 1955 autobiography Man of Everest, originally published as Tiger of the Snows.James Ramsey Ullman
  21. Denman and the two Sherpas started their ascent on April 9, 1947.Earl Denman
  22. They reached about 22,000 ft before a storm forced them to abort the attempt and turn back.Earl Denman
  23. In 1953 Lowe was a member of the British Mount Everest Expedition led by John Hunt.George Lowe (mountaineer)
  24. Bourdillon and Charles Evans climbed to the South Summit of Everest on 26 May 1953 using closed-circuit oxygen apparatus developed by Bourdillon and his father.Tom Bourdillon
  25. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit in the second assault party on 29 May 1953, three days after the first party's attempt.Charles Evans (mountaineer)
  26. Khumbu lies at 27.805, 86.71.Source
  27. Lowe supervised preparation of the Lhotse Face, while Hillary forged a route through the Khumbu Icefall.Edmund Hillary
  28. The 1951 Everest expedition chalked out the now famous route over the Khumbu Glacier.Eric Shipton
  29. South Col lies at 27.975, 86.931944444444.Source
  30. Hillary Step lies at 27.987468, 86.924828.Source
  31. Three days later John Hunt directed Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to go for the Main Summit using open-circuit equipment, and they reached it on 29 May 1953.Tom Bourdillon
  32. Mount Everest lies at 27.988055555555555, 86.925.Source
  33. Tenzing Norgay first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary, and Jamling is the son of Tenzing and his third wife Daku.Jamling Tenzing Norgay
  34. Shipton was stepped down from leading the 1953 Everest expedition, along with Andrew Croft, in favour of Major John Hunt, because of his belief in small expeditions over military-style sieges.Eric Shipton