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‘Snow leopard’ Ang Rita Sherpa Passed Away

September 26 , 2020 1515 days 1337 0
  • Ang Rita Sherpa, popularly known as 'Snow Leopard, had won several awards as an extremely successful mountaineer.
  • He also worked on a number of projects with The Mountain Institute on conservation of the alpine Himalayan zone.
  • He received the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal in 2011 for his efforts towards conservation of the fragile Himalayan ecology.
  • He won a Guinness World Record certificate for climbing Mount Everest the maximum number of times without using supplementary oxygen.

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