Do we know much about those people, about whom we really should have the least inkling, be aware of what they had done and why they had gained posthumous recognition.
Tenzing Norgay, often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, a man who came from a peasant family from Khumbu in Nepal, couldn’t read or write, became known all over the world due to his reaching the summit of Everest – the highest mountain in the world.
The young Tenzing knew nothing of this mountain called Everest, but soon found out that it was the same mountain as Chomolungma. Tenzing knew something about Chomolungma. While grazing his father's yaks he had seen it many times rising high above the nearer peaks, exalting the final rays of daylight with its crystal pennant of wind-blown snow. His mother, like all Sherpa mothers, had told him about Chomolungma; in the Sherpa tongue it was said to mean “The Mountain So High No Bird Can Fly Over It.”
Since his early childhood he has been dreaming of climbing the mountain and took part in numerous expeditions to Everest, but due to different reasons and circumstances all the attempts fell flat up to the 29th May 1959. He and his companion Edmund Hillary were first people to reach the summit of Everest. Technically it is still unknown who of two men was the first, but Tenzing Norgay never wanted to make a mountain out of a molehill and used to say: "If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame." Two companions remained good friends till the end of their lives.
Almost everything is known about the life of the world known mountaineer. He was married three times, had 5 children and a number of followers. His son Jamling Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1996.
After his dearest wish had come true, Sherpa became director of field training for the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling. He died of bronchial condition in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India in 1986.
This information is not full, of course, but I didn’t put such a task – to retell the biography of Sherpa – I simply wanted to attract your attention to actions of such people as Tenzing Norgay, who spent his entire life trying to achieve his aim. His life was far from being easy: in his childhood he ran errands for his family (there were 13 children there), later worked hard to earn money for his family; wars, hardships, misunderstanding and lots of other problems didn’t break him, but made him strong and ready to fight till the end. Otherwise he wouldn’t have managed to reach the summit of Everest. "It has been a long road...From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax." The whole life story is combined in one sentence. I have nothing more to add…
Tenzing Norgay, often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, a man who came from a peasant family from Khumbu in Nepal, couldn’t read or write, became known all over the world due to his reaching the summit of Everest – the highest mountain in the world.
The young Tenzing knew nothing of this mountain called Everest, but soon found out that it was the same mountain as Chomolungma. Tenzing knew something about Chomolungma. While grazing his father's yaks he had seen it many times rising high above the nearer peaks, exalting the final rays of daylight with its crystal pennant of wind-blown snow. His mother, like all Sherpa mothers, had told him about Chomolungma; in the Sherpa tongue it was said to mean “The Mountain So High No Bird Can Fly Over It.”
Since his early childhood he has been dreaming of climbing the mountain and took part in numerous expeditions to Everest, but due to different reasons and circumstances all the attempts fell flat up to the 29th May 1959. He and his companion Edmund Hillary were first people to reach the summit of Everest. Technically it is still unknown who of two men was the first, but Tenzing Norgay never wanted to make a mountain out of a molehill and used to say: "If it is a shame to be the second man on Mount Everest, then I will have to live with this shame." Two companions remained good friends till the end of their lives.
Almost everything is known about the life of the world known mountaineer. He was married three times, had 5 children and a number of followers. His son Jamling Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Everest in 1996.
After his dearest wish had come true, Sherpa became director of field training for the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling. He died of bronchial condition in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India in 1986.
This information is not full, of course, but I didn’t put such a task – to retell the biography of Sherpa – I simply wanted to attract your attention to actions of such people as Tenzing Norgay, who spent his entire life trying to achieve his aim. His life was far from being easy: in his childhood he ran errands for his family (there were 13 children there), later worked hard to earn money for his family; wars, hardships, misunderstanding and lots of other problems didn’t break him, but made him strong and ready to fight till the end. Otherwise he wouldn’t have managed to reach the summit of Everest. "It has been a long road...From a mountain coolie, a bearer of loads, to a wearer of a coat with rows of medals who is carried about in planes and worries about income tax." The whole life story is combined in one sentence. I have nothing more to add…
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