Ang Rita

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Ang Rita, a Sherpa (born in 1948, in Nepal) is a famous mountain climber, who has successfully climbed Mount Everest ten times without the use of supplemental oxygen,[1] and is thus known as "The Snow Leopard".[2] When he made his tenth climb of Everest in 1996 he set a world record for the number of successful ascents.[3]

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  1. ^ Gillman, Peter; Gillman, Leni (2001). Everest: eighty years of triumph and tragedy. The Mountaineers Books, p. 202. ISBN 0898867800. 
  2. ^ Hartemann, Frederic; Hauptman, Robert (2005). The Mountain Encyclopedia. Scarecrow Press, p. 190. ISBN 0810850567. 
  3. ^ Young, Mark C. (ed.) (1999). The Guinness Book of Records. Bantam Books, p. 531. ISBN 0553580752. 
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