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The “Snow Leopard” from Mount Everest
Ang Rita Sherpa‘s Everest record could be one for eternity. The legendary climber from Nepal, who the locals reverently call “Snow Leopard”, is now 70 years old. No other climber has scaled the highest mountain on earth as often without bottled oxygen as Ang Rita did in the 1980s and 90s. “His record of nine will probably stand for a long time since current climbing Sherpas are required to use O2 by their companies,” Richard Salisbury from the “Himalayan Database” writes to me.
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7. December 2018 | 0:01
Ang Rita Sherpa, David Breashears, Everest winter ascent, Himalayan Database, Mount Everest, Richard Salisbury, Snow leopard, Without bottled oxygen
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