Jamling Tenzing Norgay

Jamling Tenzing Norgay is the son of Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who completed the first successful summit climb of Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953. Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later climbed Everest in 1996 with a team including mountaineer Ed Viesturs, an experience documented in the 1998 IMAX film, Everest.

Related Topics:
Tenzing Norgay - Sherpa - Mt. Everest - Sir Edmund Hillary - Ed Viesturs

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Norgay went on to write Touching My Father's Soul, a book documenting his experiences on the summit attempt. The book was notable for the frankness with which it discussed the relationship between the often-wealthy climbers and the sherpas who obtain their incomes from assisting expeditions. Norgay's book was the first to discuss from the sherpas' point of view the disastrous May 1996 climbing season, in which eight climbers died. It noted, for example, that little notice is taken when Sherpas die, but much attention is focused when those lost are clients.

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