Aishwarya Thapa Chhetri is an intern for NBC News based in Hong Kong.
HONG KONG — Some families go to the beach for vacations, others visit big cities. Jamling Tenzing Norgay’s family climbed mountains. “We went on a trek to some beautiful ridges. That’s what we did all the time, with my father,” said Tenzing, whose father, Tenzing Norgay, was a Nepalese-Indian Sherpa who in 1953 became one of the first two confirmed people to reach the top of Mount Everest along with New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary.
” Tenzing’s 1996 climb coincided with what was at the time Mount Everest’s deadliest year ever. Twelve climbers died during the spring climbing season, including eight who got caught in a blizzard on the way down. This year, eight climbers died or went missing, compared with 18 in 2023. Tenzing and others such as Kami Rita, a Sherpa guide who last month scaled Mount Everest for a record 30th time, have also expressed concern about the mountain’s trash problem.
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