Tashi Tenzing

Tashi Wangchuk Tenzing (Tibetan: བཀྲ་ཤིས་དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་འཛིན་, Wylie: Bkra-shis Dbang-phyug Bstan-'dzin) is an Indian-born Australian[3][4] Sherpa mountaineer.

He 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.

He established the Delhi University Climbing Club and studied at the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling.

His grandfather, Tenzing Norgay, established this Institute after his ascent of Everest to offer professional climbing instruction.

Since leaving University Tashi has led trekking and climbing trips in Nepal, Tibet, Pakistan, Kashmir and the Indian Himalaya.