Notable Sherpas
Sep 01, 2019
2 minutes
Sherpa Tenzing Norgay was 39 years old on May 29, 1953, when he and New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary made history. They were the first men to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest. It was Norgay’s seventh attempt to scale Everest.
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