Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards 2024 Announced

Key facts

• The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports announced the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Awards (TNNAA) 2024 for four achievers.
• The awardees include Baljeet Kaur and Skalzang Rigzin in the Land Adventure category, Rimo Saha in Water Adventure, and Shiv Prasad Chamoli in Lifetime Achievement.
• President Droupadi Murmu will confer the awards at Rashtrapati Bhavan alongside the National Sports Awards 2025.
• Each award carries a bronze statuette, a certificate, a blazer with a silken tie (or saree), and prize money of Rs 15 lakh.
• The award is equivalent to the Arjuna Awards and is presented by the Government of India.
• The awardees were selected on the recommendations of the National Selection Committee.
• The award is named after Tenzing Norgay, who with Sir Edmund Hillary first confirmed climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.