Early Years
He was born in Tanganyika (now Tanzania) where he lived on a farm with his Australian father and Irish mother. In 1967, the family moved to Australia, to a farm in north eastern Victoria. He attended Geelong Grammar School and spent a year at the school's outdoor education campus Timbertop. Tim studied at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra where he joined the ANU Mountaineering Club (ANUMC) and obtained a BSc in between bushwalking, rock climbing and backcountry skiing and kayaking trips.
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