Ang Rita
Mountaineer
1948 –
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Who is Ang Rita?
Ang Rita aka Angrita Sherpa is a mountain climber who has climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen, and is thus known as "The Snow Leopard". When he made his sixth climb of Everest in 1990 he set the world record for the most number of successful ascents, eventually reaching 10 in 1996. He is a Sherpa born in 1948 in small village called Yillajung in eastern Nepal.
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- Born
- 1948
Nepal - Ethnicity
- Sherpa people
- Nationality
- Nepal
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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