Reddit reviews Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest

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Here's a link I found from some guy who met Tenzing Norgay when Tenzing went to his school to deliver a speech:

>Perhaps, I was not old enough to comprehend the intricacies of citizenship and immigration, but his first words to us was calming and reassuring. He said, "I am a Tibetan!" in a loud clear voice. I woke up then.
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>Tenzing, explained at length with fine detail, why he came to be called a Sherpa. As a Tibetan refugee, there was no chance in hell of being recognized as a hero along side Edmund Hillary. With Ed's help he gained, meaning full employment as a mountain porter, and then a famous mountaineer and the story went on.

Then, of course, there's Encylopedia Britannica:

>Tenzing Norgay, (Nepalese: “Wealthy-Fortunate Follower of Religion”)Norgay also spelled Norkey or Norkay, original name Namgyal Wangdi, (born May 15, 1914, Tshechu, Tibet [now Tibet Autonomous Region, China]—died May 9, 1986, Darjeeling [now Darjiling], West Bengal, India), Tibetan mountaineer who in 1953 became, with Edmund (later Sir Edmund) Hillary of New Zealand, the first person to set foot on the summit of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak.

Aside from the interview with Tenzing's son Norbu, in which he mentioned Tenzing was born in Tibet, apparently his other son Jamling also said Tenzing was born in Tibet. He says this in his book Touching My Father's Soul: A Sherpa's Journey to the Top of Everest. I haven't personally read the book, so I can't confirm that, but that's what Wikipedia reports.

Norbu also said that Tenzing was born in Tibet as reported in Ed Webster's book Snow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest. It says that one reason why Tenzing hid the truth was because of political pressure, since admitting that he was born in Tibet would have handed a propaganda coup to the Chinese, because they would claim that a Chinese climber was the first to climb Everest. Webster and Norbu actually visited Tenzing's relatives in Tibet, including his half-brother Tashi, who confirmed that Tenzing was born at Tsa-chu in Tibet, near the monastery at Ghang-La. In fact, after Tenzing built his house in Darjeeling, he named it "Ghang-La" after the Tibetan monastery near his home in Tibet.