He was on the 1933 British Mount Everest expedition where he reached Camp V. Hugh Ruttledge, who led the expedition, said he was one of the best porters. On the 1934 Nanga Parbat expedition he was one of the very few who came down from Camp VIII alive. He had stayed with his sahib, Uli Wieland until he died and then he came down with other Sherpas to Camp IV by then suffering from dreadful frostbite.