tenzing norgay

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   Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986)

   BroaderSherpamountaineer

Questions about tenzing norgay

What does tenzing norgay mean?

tenzing norgay means "Sherpa mountaineer guide who with Sir Edmund Hillary was one of the first to attain the summit of Mount Everest (1914-1986)".

Is tenzing norgay a common word?

tenzing norgay is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.