'''Ang Tshering''' (or Ang Tsering) (19041903 - May 22, 2002)<ref>https://www.himalayanclub.org/resources/the-himalaya/2002/ {{Dead link|date=February 2022}}</ref> was a [[Sherpa people|sherpa]] known for his participation in the [[1924 British Mount Everest expedition]] and the [[1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster]].<ref name="Douglas 2018">{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2001/apr/23/artsandhumanities.highereducation|title=Ed Douglas talks to the Sherpa of a 1924 Everest expedition|last=Douglas|first=Ed|date=2001-04-23|website=the Guardian|language=en|access-date=2018-09-24}}</ref>
Tsering was born in Nepal in 19041903, and worked as a sherpa from 1924 to 1973.<ref name="Stewart 2018">{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/4722810/The-mist-rolled-in-Mallory-was-lost.html|title=The mist rolled in, Mallory was lost|last=Stewart|first=Jules|journal=Daily Telegraph|date=2001-04-08|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235}}</ref> He worked as a sherpa for the British expedition to [[Mount Everest]]. He was paid "Twelve annas, that's three-quarters of a rupee."<ref name="Douglas 2018" /> During the Nanga Parbat expedition, he spent seven<ref>{{Cite book|title=Abode of snow : a history of Himalayan exploration and mountaineering from earliest times to the ascent of Everest|last=Mason|first=Kenneth|date=1987|publisher=Diadem|isbn=978-0906371916|location=London|oclc=16079883|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/abodeofsnowhisto0000maso}}</ref> or nine<ref name="Stewart 2018" /> days in the storm until he reached Camp One, and then was able to alert the Germans about the disaster.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.markhorrell.com/blog/2012/a-short-history-of-nanga-parbat-the-naked-german-mountain/|title=A short history of Nanga Parbat, the Naked German Mountain|date=2012-08-01|work=Mark Horrell|access-date=2018-09-24|language=en-GB}}</ref> He worked as a sherpa for the [[Indian Everest Expedition 1965]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.istampgallery.com/indian-mount-everest-expedition/|title=First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website=www.istampgallery.com|date=22 January 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebetterindia.com/25939/did-you-know-that-50-years-ago-9-indians-held-a-record-for-climbing-mount-everest/|title=First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website=www.thebetterindia.com|date=17 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjF7ZzEJPhg|title=First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website=www.youtube.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHkwqaXLmooC|title= Nine Atop Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|isbn= 9788173871115|last1= Kohli|first1= M. S.|date= December 2000}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/ZDIwIHEyFLl1y3lVvqtQ5J/The-first-Indians-on-Everest.html|title= The first Indians on Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website= www.livemint.com|date= 16 May 2015}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| url=https://www.himalayanclub.org/hj/26/2/nine-atop-everest/|title= The first Indians on Everest-First successful Indian Expedition of 1965-|website= www.himalayanclub.org}}</ref>
