Tashi Tenzing spent part of his childhood in Darjeeling, India where he attended St Paul's School excelling at distance and sprint running, soccer, cricket, gymnastics, karate, hockey and horse-riding as well as oil painting and batik.
13 Facts About Tashi Tenzing
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Tashi Tenzing established the Delhi University Climbing Club and studied at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling.
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Tashi Tenzing's grandfather, Tenzing Norgay, established this Institute after his ascent of Everest to offer professional climbing instruction.
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Tashi Tenzing graduated from the Institute as an instructor and still sometimes delivers courses there as a guest instructor.
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Since leaving University Tashi Tenzing has led trekking and climbing trips in Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, Kashmir and the Indian Himalaya.
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In 1993 Tashi led the 40th Anniversary Everest Expedition to mark the 40th anniversary of the first successful expedition of his grandfather, Tenzing Norgay.
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Tashi Tenzing himself missed the summit as well by just 400 metres, having to turn back with snow blindness.
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On 23 May 1997 Tashi Tenzing reached the summit of Everest.
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Tashi Tenzing again reached the summit of Mount Everest for the second time in 2002.
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Tashi Tenzing later returned to Nepal and married a Sherpa woman called Bandi Nima Sherpa and now lives in Kathmandu and runs a trekking company "Tenzing Asian Holidays".
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In May 2013 Tashi Tenzing said he believed his grandfather Tenzing Norgay should have been knighted, not just given "a bloody medal".
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Tashi Tenzing's cousin is actor Tenzing Norgay Trainor, best known as Parker in Liv and Maddie.
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Tashi Tenzing is usually credited as Tashi Wangchuk Tenzing of Australia, sometimes with a note that he is Tenzing's grandson.