Tenzing Peak Tenzing Peak Tenzing Peak is the name which has been proposed by the Government of Nepal for a peak in the Himalayas in honour of Tenzing Norgay, who made the first ascent of Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953. It is also known variously as Ngojumba Kang, Ngozumpa Kang and Ngojumba Ri. In September 2013 a government panel recommended that two mountains on the ridge between Cho Oyu and Gyachung Kang be called Hillary Peak and Tenzing Peak as part of a batch of new summits that would be opened to climbers in 2014. It is in fact a satellite
Kenneth Mason (geographer) retired from his Chair at Oxford in 1953 but continued to write and give lectures on topics relating to the exploration of the Himalaya into his retirement. His final major work, "Abode of Snow", was written shortly after the triumph of the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition and presents a comprehensive history of Himalayan exploration up to the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Mason also contributed obituaries for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography for two fellow explorers: Kenneth Mason (geographer) Lieut-Colonel Kenneth Mason MC (10 September 1887 – 2 June 1976)