Jamling Tenzing Norgay

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Jamling Tenzing Norgay was climbing leader for the 1996 Everest IMAX Filming Expedition and summitted Mount Everest in that year Broughton Coburn is the author of the bestselling Everest: Mountain Without Mercy

Bevat de namen: Jamling Norgay, Jamling Tenzing, Jamling T. Norgay, Jamling Tenzing Norgay, Norgay Tenzing Dzamling

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Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten: NORGAY, Jamling Tenzing
Jambuling Nyandrak,
Geboortedatum: 1965-04-23
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: Nepal
Geboorteplaats: Darjeeling, West Bengal, India
Opleiding: Northland College
Beroepen: mountaineer
Relaties: Norgay, Tenzing (father)

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Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's… door Jamling T. Norgay

Jamling Tenzing Norgay's "Touching my Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest" is really an excellent book. It was wonderful to read about Everest from a Sherpa's perspective.

Jamling, of course, is the son of Tenzing Norgay, who was the first to ascend Mt. Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary. Jamling himself was on an expedition up Everest with a team carrying an IMAX camera in the tragic 1996 season when 12 climbers lost their lives -- most on the same day in the teeth of a ferocious storm.

Norgay's book is a great mixture of those two stories, along with a terrific amount of information about Sherpa culture and Buddhism. This really makes for a fascinating read and a great accompaniment to the two more well-known books about the 1996 Everest season.… (meer)

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