Tenzing Peak

{{short description|Mountain peak in the Himalayas}}

{{Infobox mountain

| name = Tenzing Peak

| photo = Cho Oyu.jpg

| photo_caption = The North Face of Cho Oyu from Tingri in Tibet. Tenzing Peak is the peak on the left.

| elevation_m = 7916

| elevation_ref = {{cite news| url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/06/mount-everest-hillary-tensing-peaks |work=The Guardian | title= Mount Everest: Hillary and Tenzing to have peaks named after them| date=6 September 2013}}

| prominence_m = 216

| prominence_ref =

| location = Border of Tibet and Nepal

| range = Himalayas

| map_image = {{OSM Himalaya|lat_d=28.1|long_d=86.7|zoom=7}}

| coordinates = {{coord|28|06|21|N|86|41|13|E|type:mountain_region:NP_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

| range_coordinates =

| coordinates_ref =

| first_ascent = April 24, 1965 by Naomi Uemura and Pemba Tenzing

}}

Tenzing Peak is the name which has been proposed by the Government of Nepal for a {{convert|7916|m|ft|0|adj=on}} peak in the Himalayas in honour of Tenzing Norgay, who made the first ascent of Everest with Edmund Hillary in 1953. It is also known variously as Ngojumba Kang,{{cite web|url=https://www.peakbagger.com/peak.aspx?pid=35675|title=Peakbagger: Ngojumba Kang|access-date =30 October 2024}} Ngozumpa Kang and Ngojumba Ri.

In September 2013 a government panel recommended that two mountains on the ridge between Cho Oyu and Gyachung Kang be called Hillary Peak and Tenzing Peak as part of a batch of new summits that would be opened to climbers in 2014. It is in fact a satellite peak of Cho Oyu,{{cite web |url=http://www.explorehimalaya.com/mountaineering_identifiied_peak_np.php |title=List of identified peaks located in Nepal |publisher=explorehimalaya.com|accessdate=7 September 2013 }} which is {{cvt|2.64|km}} to its west–south–west.

It was first climbed on 24 April 1965 by Naomi Uemura and Pemba Tenzing as part of a Japanese expedition from the Alpine Club of Meiji University.{{cite journal |journal= American Alpine Journal |year=1966 |page=190 |title= Ngojumba-Ri |volume=15 |issue=40 |author=Yoshizawa, Ichiro |url=http://publications.americanalpineclub.org/articles/12196619001/Asia-Nepal-Ngojumba-Ri |accessdate=November 27, 2016 }}

The subsidiary peaks of Ngojumba Kang are to its east Ngojumba Kang II at {{cvt|7743|m}} at {{cvt|2.16|km}} distance at {{coord|28|06|22|N|86|42|22|E}} and Ngojumba Kang III (Hillary Peak) at {{cvt|7681|m}} at {{cvt|2.81|km}} distance at {{coord|28|06|24|N|86|42|46|E}}.{{efn|The locations of the peaks named Tenzing and Hillary were initially unclear. The height given by Nepalese government sources of Hillary Peak at 7681 m is used here. The coordinates published by the Nepalese government later in 2014 for Hillary Peak at {{coord|28|06|24|N|86|42|58|E}} best matches Ngojumba Kang III, rather than Ngojumba Kang II as assigned by some.}}