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World Tibet Network News Tuesday, June 3, 1997

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3. Tenzing Norgay's grandson also atop Mount Everest

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India Abroad , May 30, 1997

Kathmandu (Reuters) -- Tashi Tenzing reached the top of Mount Everest on May
23, days before the 44th anniversary of the conquest of the world's highest
peak by his grandfather Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and Sir Edmund Hillary.

Nepal's Tourism Ministry said as many as 22 mountaineers scaled the
29,028-foot Everest on May 23, the most to make it to the peak on any single
day since 40 climbers reached the summit on May 10, 1993.

Tenzing, 32, is a travel agent who lives in Sydney. His grandfather died in
May 1986.

The latest summiteers takes the total of successful Everest climbers this
spring from nepal to 35. Two people have died this spring on the Nepali
side of Everest and five have died on the Tibetan side.

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Articles in this Issue:

1. Dalai Lama: "Rebirth Outside Tibet"
2. Marchers' Private Audience with His Holiness The Dalai Lama May 25, 1997
3. Tenzing Norgay's grandson also atop Mount Everest
4. Realism about China

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