NASA today named a mountain range on the planet Pluto as Norgay Montes after Tenzing Norgay, who was the first person to reached the summit of Everest with Edmund Hillary on May 29th 1953 after seven expeditions spanning eighteen years!
Despite repeated requests to the Indian Government to honour Tenzing with the Bharat Ratna, this has not yet happened.
The honour bestowed on him by NASA, coming out of the blue, is more than welcome. The video below (courtesy NASA) gives a flyover of the mountains of Pluto
For more information on NASA's mapping of the planet Pluto please visit http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000003807183/nasa-debuts-pluto-flyover.html
Despite repeated requests to the Indian Government to honour Tenzing with the Bharat Ratna, this has not yet happened.
The honour bestowed on him by NASA, coming out of the blue, is more than welcome. The video below (courtesy NASA) gives a flyover of the mountains of Pluto
For more information on NASA's mapping of the planet Pluto please visit http://www.nytimes.com/video/science/100000003807183/nasa-debuts-pluto-flyover.html