Pasang Tendi Sherpa

Director of Adventure Alternative Nepal, High & extreme altitude climbing Sherpa, Trekking leader and guide expedition planning & logistics.

Pasang Tendi spent his childhood in Kari Khola, Solu Khumbu region, and now lives in Kathmandu with his wife and two children.

He has climbed many of the famous peaks in the country and is a well known personality at the Tourism Association for Nepal (TAAN) where he is a committee member. He has had plenty of experience managing expedition and trekking logistics and is popular with staff, plus he also has a lot of experience climbing in other parts of the world, including Aconcagua in Argentina and Denali in Alaska. His English is excellent and he enjoys travel, being with his family and of course climbing. He regularly visits his home village and is the Treasurer of Moving Mountains Nepal, so tends to spend a lot of time working with the communities to develop the projects and programme that we fund.

Pasang showed his true colors, both as a Sherpa and as a man, when in 2009 he came to the aid of Gavin during his traverse of Everest without bottled oxygen. Pasang was the only back up for the expedition and carried an emergency supply of oxygen in case anything went wrong. When Gavin took a pulmonary edema at the Second Step, it was Pasang who came to the rescue and provided the life-saving oxygen and then helped with the difficult descent down the North Face.

Pasang is a popular member of the team and has earned his 'colors' as an expert in the team at Adventure Alternative. He guides regularly on peaks like Island Peak, Pokalde, Mera Peak and Lobuche East. He is also a top class trekking guide.

Pasang is a certified trekking guide training from NATHM, senior climber under NMA and than became an officer training from NATHM. As well, he has a Basic First Aid Training from the Kathmandu Environmental education project (KEEP) and is an passive board member of the Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal (TAAN). 
He has climbed with many internationally acclaimed mountaineers.

• Five times Mount Everest Summit North East ridge, as a climbing Sherpa.

• Five times Mount Everest Summit South E ridge, thrice as a climbing Sherpa and twice as a guide.

• Several times, guiding climbers above 6000 meter peaks in Nepal, as a climbing guide.