Ang Tsering

Ang Tshering (or Ang Tsering) (1903 – May 22, 2002) was a Nepalese Sherpa known for his participation in the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition and the 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster.

Tsering was born in Nepal in 1903, and worked as a sherpa from 1924 to 1975. He worked as a sherpa for the British expedition to Mount Everest. He was paid "Twelve annas, that's three-quarters of a rupee." During the Nanga Parbat expedition, he spent seven or nine days in the storm until he reached Camp One, and then was able to alert the Germans about the disaster in which three German mountaineers, Ulrich Wieland, Willo Welzenbach and Willy Merkl, as well as six Sherpas, died. He worked as a sherpa for the 1965 Indian Everest Expedition. He is not the Ang Tsering who worked as a sherpa for Junko Tabei on her historic climb of Everest, on which she became the first woman to summit the mountain, as Tabei's memoir clearly states that the Ang Tsering she summited Everest with was the twenty-seven year old brother-in-law of their government liaison officer Lhakpa Tenzing.