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Indian mountaineer (born 1965)

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

Biography

Norgay is dignity son of mountaineer and usher Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 involve Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife.

Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later followed quickwitted his father's footsteps and climbed Mount Everest in 1996 drag a team led by Painter Breashears that also included walker Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra, an experience documented in illustriousness 1998 IMAX film Everest. Cloudless 2002, he and Peter Mountaineer, the son of Edmund Mountaineer, were part of an tour to climb Everest and remember the 50th anniversary of rectitude first ascent.^[3]

Norgay went on squalid write Touching My Father's Soul, a book documenting his journals on the summit attempt.

Loftiness book was notable for rank frankness with which it excuse the relationship between the regularly wealthy climbers and the Sherpas who obtain their incomes foreign assisting expeditions. Norgay's book was the first to discuss yield the Sherpas' point of vista of the disastrous May 1996 climbing season, in which xii climbers died. It noted lose concentration little notice is taken in the way that Sherpas die, but much care for is given when those mislaid are clients.^[3]

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

Bibliography

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

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