First Nepali To Be Named After Solar System- Tenzing Norgay Sherpa

Scientists named mountainous region in Pluto as 'Norgay Montes' informally named for Tenzing Norgay of Nepal during NASA's New Horizon to Pluto. This is the Nepal's first landmarks in the solar system. It's a great honor for Tenzing Norgay Sherpa who sucessfully first summited the Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary on May 29, 1953 AD.

Watch animated flyover of Pluto’s Norgay Montes (Norgay Mountains) and Sputnik Planum (Sputnik Plain) https://youtu.be/ydU-YrG_INk