Tenzing Norgay, born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first two people known to certainly reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
Norgay in Stockholm, 1967
Statue of Norgay at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
Mount Everest
Sir Edmund Hillary greets Tenzing Norgay, c. 1971.
The Sherpas are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region. The term sherpa or sherwa derives from the Tibetan-language words ཤར shar ('east') and པ pa ('people'), which refer to their geographical origin in eastern Tibet.
Young Sherpas in traditional attire at West Bengal Sherpa Cultural Board
Sherpa mountain guide Pem Dorjee Sherpa at Khumbu Icefall
Thame Gompa is one of numerous Sherpa monasteries in Nepal
Traditional Sherpa architecture, but with a steel roof