Tengboche Water Supply

The Himalayan Trust built a water supply for Tengboche in 1970. Tengboche, in the Khumbu region of Solukhumbu, is home to the most important monastery on the route to Everest, and its head lama opened Sir Edmund Hillary's first school, at Khumjung, in 1961.

It was one of a series of village water supplies the Trust laid across the Khumbu from 1963 onwards, after Khumjung, Khunde and Phortse. The Trust had already built a school in the village in 1965 and a footbridge on the trail below the monastery in 1966.