Tenzing Norgay on "To Tell the Truth" (July 27, 1964)

[@zyxmyk]

they say it's almost impossible to pull someone over the lip of a crevasse by yourself. the guy tensing climbed Everest with, Edmund Hillary, was 6'3 or 6'4. they were roped together. an ice bridge over a crevasse collapsed under Hillary and tensing pulled him up over the lip of the crevasse by himself, a feat of super human strength. the day after they had returned to the base of Everest, Tensing walked to his home village thirty miles away in one day. he was a legendarily strong human being and (I think) is the secret of how they managed to do it. the word legend gets bandied about but he really is a legend.

[@dLimboStick]

​@random critique Perhaps you missed part about having just finished climbing the highest mountain on the planet.

[@willgaston3726]

Our first Stratonauts, to climb into the Stratosphere and come back alive. RESPECT.

[@zyxquark]

the guy who climbed Everest with tensing norgay was six feet three. It's supposed to be impossible to pull someone over the lip of a crevasse. the big guy, roped to norgay, fell into a crevasse. tensing norgay, a little Sherpa, pulled him out of the crevase up over the lip of the crevasse by himself. after they got down from climbing Everest he spent one night at base camp then walked thirty miles home in one day. he was legendarily strong even among sherpas.

[@monikanagpal8978]

zyxquark are u talking about Sir Emund Hillary

[@nobeldahal2123]

@@monikanagpal8978 no son he's talking about tenzing norgay

[@peace-now]

Actually this is all true. Hillary was a very tall man, and he was always grateful that Tenzing saved his life. The event happened prior to the historic Everest climb.

[@sujaypils]

What a sad game for a man who conquered the world. So humble.

[@purely-planted]

He's such a great man. Also he took all the danger on him for Edmund Hillary and other team to get to the summit.

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

His son said if he'd known it would lead to the over commercialization of climbing Everest he may not have climbed it. At least he can take his carton of Winstons on his next climb and smoke them at the top.

[@Darwinsmom]

Is it any wonder Tenzing Norgay was a media darling? He was such an attractive man who had accomplished something incredible. It troubles me to see people "Monday morning quarterbacking" the narrative. If the critics were there alongside Norgay and Hillary, I might attribute some modicum of possibility to the stories. Every time I see a Sherpa in videos carrying incredible weights around tough regions, like the Khumbu region, I have no problem believing that Norgay could have pulled Hillary from a crevasse.

[@Heb.2000]

i'm crying this is so sad. How do you not know a legend like this? He was treated like a zoo animal. He died so prematurely and dealing with this kind of treatment for 30 years is the reason

[@leticiaraquel2745]

Tenzing Norgay lived out the remainder of his 71 years doing what he loved in Darjeeling, India. He was and is very, very highly regarded there and also in many other countries. Kings and queens have given him awards and honors. His son Jamling runs the mountaineering/trekking company that Tenzing started, Tenzing Norgay Adventures. (I'm friends with one of his children so I can assure you he did not have a short life due to being treated like a zoo animal.)

[@moontexts]

@@leticiaraquel2745 glad to hear that, appreciate you for sharing

[@ninirema4532]

Dear all great gentle very sweet good morning and nicy have good day.

[@campbellhen]

Great Thanks Ron- campbell

[@archiewoosung5062]

Both Hillary and Tensing were relatively easy to pick out; didn't have to say anything, just seemed like men who knew what they were about.

[@KC3141]

"... and a carton of Winstons on the way out."

[@gruvdrums]

KC3141 I know, how ironic...Tenzing gets a carton of smokes on his way out...just what a Sherpa would need to help his lungs out with climbing mountains! XD

[@lenb7275]

So we can all get cancer ! 😂

[@zainahmed6502]

Number 2 is Ambassador Lakhan L Mahrotra of Indian Foreign Service. Google his name you can find a current picture of him.

[@vidmaryo]

Sally Ann Howes met TN when she and her father were in Paint Your Wagon in London. I wonder if he really enjoyed that show. Years later she was asked to go to the Kennedy White House and perform Brigadoon, this for King Hussein. I guess when you're a VIP in a different culture you take whatever comes.

[@Mitsubachi2529]

0:30 "WTF did I agree to?" XD!

[@Chuck0856]

Do you notice he says "God bless you" at the end of evert segment?

[@michaelphelan423]

William "Bud" Collier was the voice of Superman in the 1940s cartoons and radio show

[@bikrantpun8542]

TENGING NORGEY SHERPA

[@MontagZoso]

I hope Tenzing got oodles of money for doing this show. ✌️

[@beepbeeplettuce5890]

He didnt

[@alisharijal7563]

You really cannot believe where he is from and how the Nepalese were. We do not believe in money , rather to say even our motherland name is greater than our life.

[@beepbeeplettuce5890]

@@alisharijal7563 yea how dare that guy just wish him well and not know every aspect of every single culture, fuck him right?

[@beepbeeplettuce5890]

@@alisharijal7563 and your country has a national currency so you at least believe in money a little

[@PV-pu5iu]

I couldn't understand what number 3 said?

[@rockey19775]

very impress

[@peace-now]

Tenzing. Hero of New Zealand.

[@manishkandel3543]

Hero of Nepal*

[@xoxotenzinxoxo]

+Aks bhandari hero of Tibet**

[@manishkandel3543]

Ignorant fool you are*

[@xoxotenzinxoxo]

+Aks bhandari get your info straight you fool

[@peace-now]

+SugarTomAppleRoger Please don't get me wrong. He is from Nepal and not from NZ and is a hero of Nepal also. We in NZ recognise Tenzing as a great hero.

[@tenzinsonam2358]

🙏🙏🙏💐💐💕💕

[@MrCollewet]

will the real tenzing norgay please stand up, please stand up

[@angel-gu8co]

i thought it definitely wasn't #1

[@OdysseyMosaic]

Tenzing Norgay looks so awkward being there, and I can't say that I blame him. All that artificiality and pretentiousness is so not what he was really 'about'. Climbing Chomolungma should get one famous, he sure as heck earned it, but not on a silly game show. :-/

[@tropicalpalmtree]

you bring up 'pretentiousness' then refer to everest as 'chomolungma'

[@luigivincenz3843]

what are you talking about? Did you see his reaction in the end? He enjoyed it. and he also enjoyed his time doing lectures and teaching in the US on the finer techniques of climbing, even leading expeditions to Mt Rainier. and Sir Hillary also enjoyed his time on TTTT, as you can see his reaction the entire sequence. In your mind, everyone is a victim. Chill out.

[@auggiewilliams3565]

tenzing (Y)

[@utsavgupta9320]

Real heroes

[@utsavgupta9320]

Not only of newzeland but of india

[@laurahoward5426]

We all know who summited first.....🙏

[@atillahorse9825]

sherpa is from east of tibet

[@dLimboStick]

So the Sherpa was wrong about what Sherpa means?

[@gyadre]

@@dLimboStick Eastern Tibet is the correct word. Sherpas migrated to E Everest region from Eastern Tibet. Sherpa is Tibetan word Shar for East and Pa is qualifier word people. TIBET = Bod Tibetan = Bodpa

[@jiranchhetri8863]

@@gyadre .____. he still do is nepali

[@slim590]

Tenzing was strong because he was a true Nepalese Gurkha (even though he was not in the army). he was naturally strong and the food he ate was organic. So, if there was a bear or animal during the climb, I think Tenzing would have risked his life by trying to kill it and save Edmund.

[@zainahmed6502]

Speaking from experience, native people of the Himalayas are strong, healthy, well-built, hospitable and extremely friendly.

[@raptors8620]

His parents were from Tibet and moved to Nepal he said that in a interview. But he is still Nepali by nationality

[@gyadre]

Tenzin is Tibetan by ethnicity and is citizen of Nepal and India.

[@jiranchhetri8863]

@@gyadre .-. wth sherpas arent tibetians they are nepali

[@anyone61]

@@jiranchhetri8863 did you even care to watch the whole video?? Freaking Nepali people claiming Tenzin Norgay as their own like bitch gtfo! He was a Tibetan and his son even said that they are Tibetan not Nepali. And watch at 2:35 what he said for where sherpa word came from. Idiot Nepali don’t know shit!

[@johnsweeney5946]

How'd they end up with the usually drunk Tom Poston and the insufferable Abe Burroughs on the same panel??

[@leadizolatorz668]

0:26 when you lead the person on his journey but he still gets the credit.

[@zainahmed6502]

They shared the credit. Neither claimed to be first, they claimed together

[@WildcardASMR]

I don’t get this show. Is the aim to make an incorrect guess? They all knew who it was...

[@victorvonsteuben1728]

They were told 1 of the 3 were tenzing, not that the first one was it

[@WildcardASMR]

@@victorvonsteuben1728 No shit. What I'm saying is that the true Tenzing is obvious, and they know it. Yet they feign ignorance

[@phuntsoknamdol5018]

I see the innocent of sherpa

[@suwashsinghkhadka758]

Wow they provide prize of cigarettes