The Tenzing Montes (formerly Norgay Montes) are a range of icy mountains on Pluto,
Naming
The mountains, first viewed by the
New Horizons spacecraft on 14 July 2015, and announced by NASA on 15 July 2015, are named after the
mountaineer
Tenzing Norgay, who, along with Sir Edmund Hillary, made the first successful ascent of the highest peak on
Earth,
Mount Everest (29 May 1953).
The mountains were informally called
Norgay Montes by the
New Horizons team, but that name was later changed from
Norgay to
Tenzing.
[Both Tenzing and Norgay are given names, but Norgay is often mistaken for a surname.] On 7 September 2017, the name
Tenzing Montes was officially approved together with the names of
Tombaugh Regio and twelve other nearby surface features.
Highest peaks
Several
within Tenzing Montes reach elevations of more than 4 km above the surrounding terrain. The table below is based on Table 3 in.
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| Tenzing Montes | "T2" | | |
| Tenzing Montes | "T1" | | |
| Tenzing Montes | "T3" | | |
| Tenzing Montes | "T4" | | |
| Tenzing Montes (south) | "T11" | | |
| Tenzing Montes (south) | "T12" | | |
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The Tenzing Montes rise up to high, about twice as high as the Hillary Montes.[ Mount Everest (1:50,000 scale map), prepared under the direction of Bradford Washburn for the Boston Museum of Science, the Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research, and the National Geographic Society, 1991, ]
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See also
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Geography of Pluto
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Geology of Pluto
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List of geological features on Pluto
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List of tallest mountains in the Solar System
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