Legendary mountaineer Ang Rita dies

By Our Reporter

Legendary mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa died in Kathmandu on Monday. Popularly known as ‘Snow Leopard, Sherpa had scaled Mt. Everest for 10 times without taking assistance of bottled oxygen. He was 72.

According to Ang Tshering Sherpa, former president of Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), Sherpa breathed his last at his daughter’s house in Jorpati. Sherpa, who had gone physically disabled for a long time, was lately suffering from the problem of liver and brain.

Born in Yillajung Village of Solukhumbu district in 1948, he had been atop Mt. Everest in 1983 for the first time. He had set the world record for the most number of successful ascents on Mt. Everest when he made his sixth climb in 1990. He had reached Everest Summit for the 10th time without supplemental oxygen in 1996.

In 2017, the Guinness World Records recognised Sherpa as the only person to climb Everest 10 times without taking assistance of supplemental oxygen.

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