Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa Jamling Tenzing Norgay (born April 23, 1966 in Darjiling ) is an Indian climber and son of Tenzing Norgay , who, together with Edmund Hillary from New Zealand, made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 . Like his father, he is a mountain guide . In 1996 he also reached the summit of Mount Everest. In 1998 the IMAX documentary Everest - Summit Without Mercy was released . Jamling's task was to lead the expedition to the summit as the leading Sherpa and to enable the expedition team to film the Himalayas and especially Everest. Directed by David Breashears , he also plays a leading role in the film.
Jamling is already the 10th member of the Norgay family to stand on the "top of the world". His nephew Tashi Tenzing also climbed Mount Everest in 1997.
He was present at the base camp on the Everest 50th Anniversary Expedition (May 2003) of Peter Hillary , the son of the first climber Sir Edmund Hillary .
Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the author of the book In the footsteps of my father - The Sherpa and Everest (English: "Touching My Fathers Soul"). The book contains a foreword by the Dalai Lama and has been translated into 18 languages. The original edition reached number 24 on the New York Times bestseller list and number 15 in Germany; it was nominated for 3 awards in Canada, London and the USA.
Jamling Tenzing Norgay runs the company Tenzing Norgay Adventures , founded by his father in 1978 , which organizes trekking tours in the Himalayas, since 2010 also in Germany under the name Tenzing Norgay Trekking . To this day he leads many trekking tours himself as a mountain guide and heads for destinations in Sikkim, Bhutan and Nepal. When he is not on tour, he travels the world and gives lectures and motivational courses for a wide variety of audiences, companies and universities. His personal experiences, those of his father Tenzing Norgay and the culture of the Sherpa are in the foreground in his courses and lectures.
Works
- with Broughton Coburn: In the footsteps of my father - The Sherpa and Everest . Diana, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-8284-5043-1 .
Original title: Touching my father's soul - A Sherpa's journey to the top of Everest . HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco 2001, ISBN 0062516876 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Everest Anniversary Expedition Wrap-Up at National Geographic
- ↑ Speaker Profile ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jamling Tenzing Norgay in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jamling Tenzing Norgay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tenzing-Norgay-Trekking.de - Himalaya trekking tours by and with Jamling Tenzing Norgay
- Tenzing Norgay Adventures (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tenzing Norgay, Jamling |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian mountain guide, Sherpa, son of Tenzing Norgay |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 23, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Darjiling |