Acting
Tenzing Norgay
EN, FR cinema · 13 credits
Born
20 May 1914
Died
9 May 1986 (aged 71)
Birthplace
Khumbu, Nepal
Also known as Namgyal Wangdi · བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས · Tensing · Tenzing Bhotia · Tensing Norkey · Tenzing Sherpa
Tenzing Norgay (/ˈtɛnzɪŋ ˈnɔːrɡeɪ/; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས tendzin norgyé; May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi, and also referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa mountaineer. On 29 May 1953, he and Edmund Hillary were the first confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, as part of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition. Time named Norgay one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.
Known for
Filmography
Tenzing
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Edge
as Self (archive footage)
High and Hallowed: Everest 1963
as Self (archive footage)
The Dark Side of Everest
as Self (archive footage)
National Geographic - Everest 50 Years on the Mountain
as Self (archive footage)
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
as Self (archive footage)
The Race for Everest
as Self (archive footage)
Everest at Any Cost
as Self (archive footage)
Hillary and Tenzing: Climbing to the Roof of World
1997
Hillary and Tenzing: Climbing to the Roof of World
as Self (archive footage)
The Conquest of Everest 1953
as self (archive footage)
