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Legendary climber Ang Rita, who holds the record for ten oxygen-free ascents to the world’s highest peak, Everest, has died at the age of 72. Ang Rita, nicknamed the “snow leopard,” died at his daughter’s home in Kathmandu, said his close friend and president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Ang Schering.
“At his peak, Ang Rita was the strongest climber in the world and a star. This is a great loss for the mountaineering community,” said Ang Schering. Sherpa Ang Rita climbed the 8,848-meter-high Mount Everest without oxygen for the first time in 1983, and did so nine more times in the next 13 years. He also made the first winter ascent of Everest without oxygen in 1987.
Born in the Everest region, Ang Rita started mountaineering in his teens, but after 1996 he developed kidney problems and stopped climbing the top of the world.
The record for most climbs on Everest is held by Kami Rita – 24, but most of them with the use of bottled oxygen.
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