Ang Rita

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, [cite book |title=Everest: eighty years of triumph and tragedy |last=Gillman |first=Peter |coauthors=Gillman, Leni |year=2001 |publisher=The Mountaineers Books |isbn=0898867800 |pages=p. 202 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=4bHqOPYMYAAC&pg=PA202&dq=%22Sherpa+Ang+Rita%22&client=firefox-a&sig=bsNUD7ePbJP3n8mnHHh4PNQIgiw ] and is thus known as "The Snow Leopard". [cite book |title=The Mountain Encyclopedia |last=Hartemann |first=Frederic |coauthors=Hauptman, Robert |year=2005 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=0810850567 |pages=p. 190 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=3XcYAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Sherpa+Ang+Rita%22&dq=%22Sherpa+Ang+Rita%22&client=firefox-a&pgis=1 ] When he made his tenth climb of Everest in 1996 he set a world record for the number of successful ascents. [cite book |title=The Guinness Book of Records |last=Young |first=Mark C. (ed.) |year=1999 |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=0553580752 |pages=p. 531 ]

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