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?
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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.
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Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival "Ed" Hillary {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. "TIME magazine" named Hillary one of the people of the 20th century.
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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.
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Tony Streather Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Harry Reginald Anthony "Tony" Streather OBE (born 24 March 1926) is a former British army officer who served in the Gloucestershire Regiment, and mountaineer who first-ascended Tirich Mir and Kangchenjunga.
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Charles Granville Bruce Brigadier-General The Honourable Charles Granville Bruce, CB, MVO (7 April 1866 – 12 July 1939) was a Himalayan veteran and leader of the second and third British expeditions to Mount Everest in 1922 and 1924.
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George Atkinson (climber) George Atkinson (born 29 May 1994) is an English climber from Surbiton. At the age of sixteen he became the youngest ever person to complete the Seven Summits Challenge by climbing to the summit of the highest mountain on each of seven continents. He completed the challenge at 08:15 local time on 26 May 2011 when he reached the summit of Mount Everest. Atkinson was 16 years and 362 days old when he completed the challenge which beat previous record holder Johnny Collinson who completed the challenge at 17 years and 296 days old.
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Trevor Braham Trevor Braham (born 22 April 1922), is a prominent figure in Himalayan exploration and mountaineering.
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Mo Anthoine Julian Vincent "Mo" Anthoine (1 August 1939 – 12 August 1989) was a British mountaineer who climbed extensively in the Himalayas in the 1970s and 80s.
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Brian Dickinson (climber) Brian Dickinson (born June 16, 1974) is a climber who soloed the summit of Mount Everest on May 15, 2011, after his Sherpa mountain guide became ill and went back down to high camp (South Col, 26,000'). After taking some pictures and making a radio call, Brian began his descent but within a few feet he became snow blind. His vision did not fully return for over a month. His descent to high camp from the summit took over seven hours, instead of the expected two to three hours. Brian ran out of oxygen on his descent but made it down to the South Col where his guide met him to help him back to his tent. Brian holds the record for the highest solo blind descent.
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Daniel Mazur Dan Mazur is a contemporary mountain climber most widely known for leading Greg Mortenson's 1993 K2 expedition in "Three Cups of Tea" and for the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber on Mount Everest on May 25, 2006. Lincoln Hall had been 'left for dead' by another expedition team the previous day at around 8600 meters on Everest after collapsing and failing to respond to treatment on the descent from the summit. Mazur and his fellow climbers - Andrew Brash (Canada), Myles Osborne (UK) and Jangbu Sherpa (Nepal) - in abandoning their own attempt on the summit in order to save Hall's life epitomised the noblest traditions of mountaineering, underscored by the death of British climber; David Sharp, a few days earlier.
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Tarun Saikia Tarun Saikia (Assamese: তৰুণ শইকীয়া) is a mountaineer and the first climber from Assam to scale Mount Everest. He reached its summit on 18 May 2013. A few days later, on 24 May, another Assamese, Manish Kumar Deka, also conquered Everest. Manipur mountaineering and trekking association had organised the expedition under the leadership of Dr L Surjit Singh. In the team there were thirteen members, of which eleven summited successfully.
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Kami Sherpa Kami Sherpa, (Nepali: कामी शेर्पा ) 51, has successfully climbed Everest three times in eight days. Sherpa climbed Everest twice in five days and the third time on the eighth day. Sherpa had climbed Everest at 10:30 am on May 19, 3:00 pm on May 24 and 4:00 am on May 27.
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Lobsang Tshering Lopsang Tshering Bhutia (Nepali: लोप्साङ भुटिया ) (1951/1952–10 May 1993) was an Nepali Sherpa mountaineer who died on Mount Everest and the nephew of Tenzing Norgay. His death made international headlines because he had died on the 40th anniversary expedition of his uncle's summiting. His uncle, Tenzing Norgay, had died at home of natural causes in 1986 at the age of 72. Tenzing Norgay was the first person to summit Mount Everest in 1953 along with Sir Edmund Hillary.
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Claude Kogan Claude Kogan (1919–1959) was a pioneering French mountaineer who, after climbing a number of peaks in South America, turned to the Himalayas. After notable feats such as the first ascent of Nun (7,135 m (23,409 ft)), she died in October 1959 while leading a women-only expedition to climb Cho Oyu.
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Samina Baig Samina Khayal Baig (Urdu: ‎ ; born 19 September 1990) is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer who in 2013 climbed Mount Everest and then all Seven Summits by 2014. She is the first and only Pakistani woman to climb Everest and the Seven Summits. She is also the youngest Muslim woman to climb Mount Everest, having done so at the age of 21.
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Ang Rita Ang Rita aka Angrita Sherpa (Nepali: आङ्गरिता शेर्पा ) is a mountain climber who has climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen, and is thus known as "The Snow Leopard". When he made his sixth climb of Everest in 1990 he set the world record for the most number of successful ascents, eventually reaching 10 in 1996. He is a Sherpa born in 1948 in small village called Yillajung in eastern Nepal.
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Araceli Segarra Araceli Segarra (born March 1970 in Lleida, Spain) is the first Spanish woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. She has also climbed Broad Peak (Attempt, 1991), Kanchenjunga (Attempts, 2001 and 2005), Shishapangma (Summit, 1992), and K2 (Attempt, 2002), among others.
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Sungdare Sherpa Sungdare Sherpa (Nepali: सुन्दरे शेर्पा ) was a Nepalese Sherpa guide for climbers of Mount Everest, who summited Everest on five different climbs.
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Hristo Prodanov Hristo Prodanov (Bulgarian: Христо Проданов ) (February 24, 1943 - April 21, 1984) was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest. He did this through the more difficult west side and without oxygen and alone. He is the first to climb Everest in April, when the weather conditions are too harsh for an expedition. He died in a storm during the descent.
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Tori James Tori James (born 1981) was the first Welsh woman to climb Mount Everest, at the age of 25, making her the youngest British woman ever to complete the ascent.
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C. R. Cooke Lieutenant-Colonel Conrad Reginald Cooke, OBE (31 August 1901 – 27 December 1996) was an English early Himalayan mountaineer. In 1935, alone and without oxygen, he reached the summit of Kabru North. His achievement remained the highest solo climb until 1953.
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Henry Day (colonel) Henry Day is a British Army Colonel who made the first British ascent (second ever ascent) of Annapurna I.