Tengboche School

Historical
The Himalayan Trust's school in Tengboche village, built in 1965 near Tengboche Monastery on the main route to Everest, later closed.
Tengboche village and monastery under snow in 1988, a year before fire destroyed the monastery buildings.

Project details

Sir Edmund Hillary's Himalayan Trust built a school in Tengboche village in 1965, close to Tengboche Monastery on the main route up to Everest. It followed the Trust's earliest school-building work at Khumjung, Thame and Pangboche, and the monastery's reincarnate lama had opened the first Khumjung school a few years earlier. The school was expanded in 1987.

The school has since closed, and the Trust's records do not say when or why, or whether its pupils were absorbed by another school the way Pangboche's and Phortse's later were. It should not be confused with the separate Tengboche Monastery School, a currently active monastic school in the same village that got its own computer lab in 2025, the fiftieth the Trust has installed across Solukhumbu.

Location

Tengboche, Khumbu

Impact

Brought Himalayan Trust schooling to Tengboche village from 1965, making it one of the Trust's earliest Khumbu schools, before later closing at an undocumented date.

Education

Programme area

1965

Programme began

1965

Completed
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