In his autobiography, Nepali Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, one of the first two people to climb Everest, has said he was born in the Nepalese village of Thame near Namche Bazaar. However, according to some commentators starting with Ed Webster and including Tenzing's grandson, he was actually born in Tibet at Tse Chu in the Kama valley near Makalu, his mother having been visiting the monastery of Namdag Lhe Phodang at Ghang La also in the Kama valley. As a young child he lived at Moyun, in the Kharta valley, where his father herded yaks. The herd succumbed to disease and as a child Tenzing went to Nepal to work for a Sherpa family in Khumbu. .