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
1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition oxygen sets, finally grinding to a halt near 8595 m, about 250 m short of the summit. Assuming that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine did not reach any higher during their expedition of 1924, this was the highest that anyone had ever been. Raymond Lambert and Tenzing Norgay were able to reach a height of about on the southeastern ridge, setting a new climbing altitude record. Tenzing's experience was useful when he was hired to be part of the British expedition in 1953 during which he reached the summit with Sir Edmund Hillary. The results of this first Swiss expedition