Tenzing Norgay was a Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer who in 1953 became, with Edmund Hillary of New Zealand, the first person to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak (approximately 29,032 feet [8,849 meters]). Norgay was a respected climber who had participated in six previous expeditions on Everest.
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