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Tenzing, Norgay
     
Tenzing, Norgay
(1914-86) a Nepalese sherpa (=a mountain climber employed to guide other climbers) who is often called Sherpa Tenzing. He and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first people to reach the top of Mount Everest, in 1953.
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