Everest Day: Tenzing Norgay Sherpa in his grandson’s memory

When Tashi Wangchuk Tenzing Sherpa began accompanying Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, his sexagenarian grandfather (mother Pem Pem’s father), on a trek to the Everest Base Camp along with many foreign climbers, he did not know who the old man was.

Tenzing Norgay Sherpa was just a ‘baaje’ (granddad) for Tashi; but this carefree teen used to wonder why other people in the trekking group would give the old man the highest possible love and respect.