Sherpa Tenzing Norgay

The world had its glory at any mountaineer, the first on the summit of the highest mountain in the world, but for Tenzing Norgay is a special honor for this achievement.

Over a period of about twenty years ago, they are part of each broadcast to bind a man at the summit of the mountain. Everest. He climbed as a gatekeeper and modest as a respected member of the team to climb. He had a total confident armies (1936 1953) 1947, on the likelihood that the same Could him the opportunity to focus on the summit. In 1953, he probably had more time on Mount Sinai. Everest than any other human being - and has at its peak. Only a few months before his successful ascent by Edmund Hillary, Raymond M. Lambert and the Swiss expedition of 1952, was up to 1000 feet of the summit - the highest point in the world, everything has achieved until then. Unlike most of his colleagues Sherpas from the time around, in the whole of the escalation was just a way of making a life difficult, Tenzing desperately wanted at the summit of the mountain. Everest and has spent most of his life to this goal. "Because in my heart," he said, "I need ... the attractiveness of Everest was for me more than any power on earth." If ever there was someone who deserved it, in the first place, he was Tenzing.

But there are other reasons why it was that the honor, along with Sir Edmund Hillary. Until the Second World War, most countries in Asia have been under the domination of the West. At the beginning of 1950, its residents finally felt their own strength and identity, and Tenzing, the achievement of a goal that everyone recognizes as one of the highest, if a convergence point for a new kind of pride and a new vision of the future . "For millions in the world today," wrote James Ramsay Ullman, shortly after the climb, Tenzing "is an event of divinity: an avatar of Lord Siva, a reincarnation of the Buddha. For millions of others still too high for the people to be confused with God, it is a mortal figure highest importance. Symbolically, so literally, Tenzing on Mount Everest was a man against the sky, almost modest, was the first in Asia in history to reach, the World Bank and stature of world renown . for other Asians And his masterpiece was not responsible for the escalation of a mountain, but a good omen for themselves and for the future of our world. "


Tenzing birth may have been modest, as Ullman says, but he also had the good fortune to portents. His parents lived in the high mountain village in Nepal Thame, but at the time of his birth, his mother was in the sanctuary in a holy place called Lha Ghang in eastern Nepal.
Tenzing, whose name has been changed, from a large Namgyal Lama Wangdi is the name that we know him today ( "Norgay" means "happiness"), himself a chance to have believed in favor. He knew the beginning of His life, no matter whether they are about their fate tend yaks in the high mountains, and in the moment when he was 13, already has a secret trip in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. Five years later, he took over Relocated (again without the permission of their parents) in Darjeeling, India, where he hopes to be able to participate in one of the expeditions in the British Mt Everest was organized. Nepal at the time was closed to foreigners, which means that all the tests were on the north side of the mountain. 1921, the British drew on Darjeeling Sherpa's strong support of the population to get the Mount Everest and the 'climbing.


With a bit of a trématode, Tenzing is about Eric Shipton's Everest Expedition 1935. It was at the time 19 and newly married - Phuti Dawa, a girl who lives in Darjeeling Sherpa. His performance in its ascent was such that he had no difficulty, set to become next British Everest expeditions in 1936 and 1938. When the Second World War ended the series, the official Everest expeditions, he is convinced, is secretly Earl Denman affected by Tibet to do what he knew was a little wild and pressure to reach the summit.


Dawa Phuti had died in 1944, he remaria a year later, Ang Lahmu, another Sherpa. Big-time Everest climb had been suspended during the Second World War, but Tenzing not stop climbing. Although his name is indelibly with Everest, he also took part in the expeditions of the Nanda Devi India, Pakistan Tirich Mir and Nanga Parbat, as well as Nepal and India Lang Tang area of Garwhal, where he was teammates and make the first pitch. In 1948, he, together with the famous Giuseppe Tucci Tibetologist at the archaeological excavations in Tibet, and in all likelihood, was one of the few people they deal with the irascible and eccentric scientists.


Nevertheless, it was the Everest, in which he mainly was interested. In a world that at the end of the war, Nepal opened its borders to foreigners in the same time that the Chinese invasion of Tibet closed the northern road. The British had longer the monopoly on Mount Everest attempts and Tenzing in 1952, was asked to Switzerland to achieve, not only as a member of the crew of Sherpa, but as a fellow climber, the two trials are the first on the summit. This is the first of these Tenzing reached the 28250 feet (just 778 feet below the summit), with Lambert. The second, in the winter, the attempt failed because of bad weather.

The British believed that 1953 was the last chance to be adopted at the first summit of Everest, and threw their plans in the aftermath, with the less fortunate. Luck is of course a factor, but it is perhaps more of a willingness to look at the best chances of success has caused their place at the summit Tenzing team with Hillary. On one end, it is also a triumph for Tenzing (for Asia), as for the British, he won this honor with his crew in New Zealand.

After Everest, what? It is difficult to think that to a greater glory, whether in the field of mountain climbing and others. And after they conquered the highest mountain in the world, the objective is to the left with dreaming?


If he is elected or not, is now Tenzing world. He has received numerous awards and was celebrated, among other things, by the state and government leaders of the world and heads of state. (The Nehru family came to visit Darjeeling, and there's a photo of them at home - which includes three generations of a meeting of the Prime Minister and three future prime minister.) He was everywhere in the world and has much to travel. It will be the first director of the newly founded city Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, a position he held during 22 years. He called the big house Darjeeling, which was paid to him by drawing public "Ghang Lha", a name of the family is of particular importance because of his connection with his birth.

He has in his new life with grace, and yet it was not always easy for him. It was a political symbol, which he unverschuldet in the controversy is not understood or environment. He was a simple man who loved life and is a simple and direct. He has never felt uncomfortable in a world where people are accustomed to use, which are their own purposes.

After Ang Lhamu died in 1964, he married Daku, a girl from Darjeeling, whose family from his home in Nepal. One of her three sons, Jamling, was followed in the footsteps of his father, at the summit of the mountain. Everest in 1996.

Tenzing died in 1986. The procession, after his funeral bier has more than one kilometre long.

that same year he married his cousin Elsa Louvain Thal, death, in 1936. He died on April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey.