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No family has stood on the world's highest point across three generations except this one — and the middle chapter fell during the deadliest storm in…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 28, 2026
Tenzing Norgay stood on the summit of Everest for the first time in human history on May 29, 1953. What far fewer people know is that two more generations of his own family did the same thing afterward — his son during the deadliest storm in the mountain's…
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Jamling Tenzing Norgay was born in Darjeeling, India, on April 23, 1965, and grew up largely away from the mountains that made his father famous. In 1996 he joined the IMAX Everest expedition, led by climber and filmmaker David Breashears alongside Ed…
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Tashi Tenzing is the son of Tenzing Norgay's daughter, Pem Pem. In 1997 he summited Everest himself, becoming the first person from a third generation of any family to stand on top of the mountain. He returned to the summit again in 2002 and 2007. Today Tashi…
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You do not need to climb Everest to walk through this family's history. Every trekker on the classic Everest Base Camp route passes directly beneath the bronze statue of Tenzing Norgay at the Sagarmatha National Park Visitor Centre, on the hill above Namche…
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