Norgay Tenzing
Norgay Tenzing was a Tibetan explorer and sherpa (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"name":"\"encyclopedia\"","page":"348","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) who was famous for climbing Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Return to Mars","name":"\"dying\"","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Dying Days (novel)"}) Due to being a sherpa he had the nickname "Sherpa Tenzing", (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"name":"\"encyclopedia\"","page":"348","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) also spelled "Sherpa Tensing". (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Return to Mars","name":"\"dying\"","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Dying Days (novel)"})
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Originating from Tibet, (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"name":"\"encyclopedia\"","page":"348","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"}) he and Edmund Hillary climbed Mount Everest (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Return to Mars","name":"\"dying\"","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Dying Days (novel)"}) in 1953; (GRAPHIC: The Time Hotel [+]Loading...["The Time Hotel (illustration)"]) Tensing was the first person to reach the summit of Everest. The Eighth Doctor later claimed that he remembered Tensing's feat as he had pulled him up, with Hillary joining them a half-minute later. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Return to Mars","name":"\"dying\"","chaptnum":"Three","1":"The Dying Days (novel)"})
The Time Hotel offered Hillary and Norgay's Everest summit as a destination. Participants had to be over eighteen years old and waterproof clothing was provided. (GRAPHIC: The Time Hotel [+]Loading...["The Time Hotel (illustration)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
In 1997, of speaking about humanity's return to Mars and the original planting of the Union Flag upon Olympus Mons, David Staines referenced the first climb of Mount Everest; the Eighth Doctor quietly clarified the claim to Bernice Summerfield, claiming he had in fact been there at the summit. (PROSE: The Dying Days [+]Loading...["The Dying Days (novel)"])
In 2011, inside Rowbarton House, Mrs Rossiter told Rory Williams she would be like Sherpa Tensing when she got her knee replacements. (TV: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (TV story)"], PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...{"name":"\"encyclopedia\"","page":"348","ed":"2011 reprint","1":"Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"})
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
In non-valid sources[[edit] | [edit source]]
While Adam Ball, Dan Facey, Sophie Law, and Pudsey Bear were trapped in a Dalek spaceship, Sam Sherpa-Moore from Banbury called in, stating himself to also be Tenzing Norgay from the Doctor Who Christmas special. He claimed to have spent some time with the Doctor, during which time he got some tips from him on how to navigate a Dalek's computer, needing to find "the secret folder, hidden in the computer's deepest and darkest hard drive, which contain[ed] all the security information and [would] tell [them] how to escape". This would also require them to answer a series of security questions which the Dalek had set up. He concluded his message by wishing them the best of luck, stating that the whole galaxy was rooting for them. (AUDIO: Dalek Escape for BBC Children in Need! [+]Loading...["Dalek Escape for BBC Children in Need! (audio story)"])
