Who was part of the ninth British expedition to Mount Everest and on May 29th,1953 became one of the first climbers to have reached the summit of Mount Everest with Namgyal Wamgdi?
Tenzing Norgay Tenzing Norgay OSN GM ( ; Sherpa: བསྟན་འཛིན་ནོར་རྒྱས "tendzin norgyé"; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was an Indian and Nepali Sherpa mountaineer. He was one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. "Time" named him one of the people of the 20th century.
Sonam Gyatso (mountaineer) Sonam Gyatso (1923–1968) was an Indian mountaineer and the first person from Sikkim to summit Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. He became the oldest person to scale the peak in 1965 and when he spent 50 minutes at the peak, he set a world record for spending the longest time at the highest point on Earth. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 1962 and followed it up with the third highest honour of the Padma Bhushan, in 1965, for his contributions to the sport of mountaineering.