Nepali-Indian mountaineer Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest one time, on May 29, 1953, with Edmund Hillary of New Zealand. Norgay did not attempt to reach the summit again. Prior to his successful climb in 1953, he had taken part in six other expeditions on Mount Everest that stopped short of the summit. He never tried to climb to the top of Mount Everest again.
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