Tenzing Norgay, the first Tibetan climber to reach the peak of Mount Everest alongside Edmund Hillary in 1953, died of a brain haemorrhage at the age of 71 in 1986.
Tenzing Norgay was the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953, at 11:30 a.m., Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and New Zealand's Edmund Hillary ascended Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain. Tenzing Norgay died on May 9, 1986, at the age of 71. According to several reports, his cause of death was either a brain haemorrhage or a bronchial ailment. As a result, a life story that began with a mystery concluded with one.
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