Pen-y-Gwryd expeditions took place, at Helyg near Capel Curig. On the right at the hotel entrance there is a Tyrolean-style Stüberl (dining room) with the signatures, written on the ceiling, of the teams that did the first ascent of Everest in 1953 and of the first ascent of Kangchenjunga in 1955 – these include Sir Edmund Hillary, Tenzing Norgay, Sir John Hunt, Charles Evans, George Band, Joe Brown, John Angelo Jackson, Wilfred Noyce, Tony Streather, Tom Mackinnon, Norman Hardie, Neil Mather, John Clegg and others, including Noel Odell from Mallory's 1924 expedition and Chris Bonington of later successes. There are many
Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus Tenzing Norgay Bus Terminus The Tenzing Norgay Central Bus Terminus is the most important bus terminal in North Bengal. It is located on Hill Cart Road, Siliguri, District Darjeeling, adjacent to the Siliguri Junction railway station, about 6 kilometers from New Jalpaigudi Railway Station. Both State owned North Bengal State Transport Corporation (NBSTC) buses and private buses ply from here. The Terminas is named after the mountaineer Tenzing Norgay who was a resident of the Darjeeling District. In August 2017 the state government announced its plan to shift the private buses operations to a proposed new site nearby and upgrade