In 1953, the aim of the Mount Everest Expedition was singularly focused: to place a climber on the summit of the world’s highest mountain. On the 29th of May that year they were successful as Hillary and Tenzing set foot on the virgin summit snows. Little could the Everest Team have imagined that the notoriety...Read More

An exemplar of Edmund Hillary’s vision Ang Jangbu was born in 1957 in a tiny remote village in the Himalayas. One of 10 brothers and sisters, he spent his early years as a shepherd boy, living in great poverty, constantly hungry and cold, spending long hours alone on the mountainside.Read More

The Tenzing Norgay Sherpa Foundation is a non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization based in the USA and voluntarily run by the children of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa. 100% of contributions benefit our work within the Sherpa and Himalayan communities. Tenzing devoted much of his life after Everest to raising awareness about Socio Economic challenges faced within...Read More

In the year following the 1953 climb, George Lowe was visiting the Nepalese village of Khumjung with Sir Edmund Hillary when a young Sherpa presented their group with a petition. It read, “We have eyes but we cannot see; we have ears but we cannot hear. We know there is a big world out there,...Read More

The Tenzing Norgay Sherpa Foundation (TNSF) is a non-profit organization registered in the United States to benefit the people of the Himalaya. It was created in memory of our parents Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Daku Tenzing Sherpa to help those in need, especially the Sherpa people. The foundation supports projects in education, healthcare, cultural preservation,...Read More

Women may have come late to the game on Everest, but that was merely a function of culture, nothing to do with ability. Today a total of 678 women have climbed Everest, seven women have climbed it without the aid of supplementary oxygen, and in May this year, 48-year-old Lhakpa Sherpa, climbed it for the...Read More

Please save the date for a very special event from 5:30pm to 7:30pm on 1 June 2023 at Aloft Hotel Kathmandu. Open to the public, we are planning a unique evening of film and discussions with the families of Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Lord Hunt as well as other celebrity Nepali mountaineers....Read More

Ed’s journey to the Summit of Mt Everest was a long one, but a fortunate decision along the way meant that he was positioned to be placed on the Everest Summit expedition. This story begins in 1951 when Ed embarked on the New Zealand Alpine Club Garhwal Himalaya expedition. It was a tough expedition where...Read More

Kanchenjunga Diary extract 1955: George Band Summit Climb The successful ascent of Mt Everest in 1953 inspired more successful climbs of “eight-thousanders”. One of these was Mt Kanchenjunga by George Band, one of the 1953 expedition members. Just like the 1953 expedition resulted in a special relationship with the people from the Khumbu area, George...Read More

Wilf Noyce was a member of the 1953 British team that made the first ascent of Everest. Widely respected for his climbing ability and with an impressive record of difficult and dangerous climbs in the Alps, he was said by Ed Hillary to be the most competent climber he, Hillary, had ever met. A Cambridge...Read More