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- noun Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986)
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Examples
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At the halfway point, he battles with the dense jungle in soaring heat and 100% humidity with his faithful Tenzing Norgay, fellow lunatic Cho Sanchez Rivera.
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Whether the mountain was even "conquered" when it was successfully climbed and descended by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay from the Nepal side in 1953 is an open question.
Ascent to Immortality Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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At the halfway point, he battles with the dense jungle in soaring heat and 100% humidity with his faithful Tenzing Norgay, fellow lunatic Cho Sanchez Rivera.
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This makes it a little difficult for even the greatest power broker to gain the kind of perspective Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had on Everest that day in May of 1953.
Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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This makes it a little difficult for even the greatest power broker to gain the kind of perspective Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had on Everest that day in May of 1953.
Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled the mountain on May 29, 1953, there had been more than 4,000 ascents and countless other visitors to the base camps in China and Nepal.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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This makes it a little difficult for even the greatest power broker to gain the kind of perspective Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had on Everest that day in May of 1953.
Winner-Take-All Politics Jacob S. Hacker 2010
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It was 1999 when the body was found, and that's when the debate began as to whether he might have been the first ever man, along with Irvine, to reach the summit of Everest without the aid of oxygen, beating Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay who are credited with the achievement in 1953.
Filmstalker: George Mallary biographical film gets third attempt 2010
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Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled the mountain on May 29, 1953, there had been more than 4,000 ascents and countless other visitors to the base camps in China and Nepal.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first scaled the mountain on May 29, 1953, there had been more than 4,000 ascents and countless other visitors to the base camps in China and Nepal.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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It was 1999 when the body was found, and that's when the debate began as to whether he might have been the first ever man, along with Irvine, to reach the summit of Everest without the aid of oxygen, beating Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay who are credited with the achievement in 1953.
They were part of an eight-member team of some of the world's top mountaineers (and a PBS documentary crew), hoping both to find the remains of Mallory and Irvine and to determine if they had reached the summit before dying -- 29 years before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first recognized ascent, in 1953.
August 10, 2015