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Ang Rita Sherpa was born on 20 September, 1948 in Solukhumbu, Nepal, is a Nepalese mountain climber. Discover Ang Rita Sherpa's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?
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20 September 1948 |
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20 September |
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Solukhumbu, Nepal |
Date of death |
21 September, 2020 |
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Kathmandu, Nepal |
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Nepal
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Ang Rita Sherpa Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Ang Rita Sherpa worth at the age of 72 years old? Ang Rita Sherpa’s income source is mostly from being a successful Mountaineer. He is from Nepal. We have estimated Ang Rita Sherpa's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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Ang Rita Sherpa (आङरिता शेर्पा; 27 July 1948 21 September 2020) was a Nepalese mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest ten times without using supplemental oxygen between 1983 and 1996.
His sixth climb set the world record for the most successful ascents of Mount Everest, which he re-set on his tenth climb.
Although others have since summitted Everest more, he still holds the record for most summits without supplemental oxygen.
He was also the first, and to date only, person to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen in winter.
He was nicknamed the "Snow Leopard" by his peers.
Sherpa was born in 1948 in Thame, Solukhumbu.
He spent his childhood looking after the yaks and as a porter on trading expeditions across the Himalayas to Tibet.
He joined mountaineering as a porter at the age of 15.
He did not receive any formal education or mountaineering training.
Sherpa's first successful climb was to Mount Cho Oyu at the age of 20.
He went on to successfully summit dozens of mountains including Mount Everest, K2, Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Manaslu, Annapurna and Dhaulagiri, multiple times without supplementary oxygen.
He is thought to have successfully summitted eight-thousanders a total of 18 times, almost all of them without oxygen.
Sherpa first climbed Mount Everest in 1983.
In just over 13 years, he reached the summit of Everest nine more times without using bottled oxygen.
Eight of his ten summits were via the Southeast ridge route.
In April 1985, he successfully took the leader of the Norwegian team that he was guiding, to the summit of Mount Everest despite a blizzard.
Sherpa was the first person to reach the summit of Everest in winter without supplementary oxygen, a feat he achieved in 1987.
He was also the first person to climb Everest 10 times.
During his record-setting ascent of Everest in the winter of 1987, he assisted a South Korean team.
According to Sherpa, after he and another climber got separated from the team one night, the two performed aerobic exercises all night to keep warm and alive.
In 1990, he assisted a team from the Nepali Army in their Everest expedition.
From the team that started its preparation with almost 50 members, only four reached the summit along with Sherpa, only one of them a soldier of the Nepali Army.
His last summit was 12 days after the 1996 Everest disaster.
He was distraught by the loss of his friends in the disaster.
According to his family, King Birendra had sent Crown Prince Dipendra to relay his request that Sherpa retire from mountaineering, in view of his deteriorating health.
He stopped mountaineering following the visit by the Crown Prince.
Sherpa retired from mountaineering in 1996 after he fell ill due to a liver ailment that lasted the rest of his life.
His eldest son, Karsang, was also a mountaineer, and had summitted Everest nine times; he died during an expedition in 2012.
He also had a stroke around 2015–16.
He was recognised by the Guinness World Records in 2017 as the only person in the world to have climbed Mount Everest ten times without bottled oxygen, a record he still holds in 2020.
Sherpa was considered by his peers to be the strongest and most skilled Sherpa guide of his time.
According to Sherpa, he once signed up as a low-altitude porter in an expedition to Dhaulagiri but was made to carry equipment to Dhaulagiri-III camp, a task he successfully completed without shoes and any climbing gear.
Sherpa died suddenly at his daughter's residence in Kathmandu, at around 10 A.M. on 21 September 2020, at age 72.
Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli expressed his condolences on Twitter—"His accomplishments will be forever remembered."
Sherpa's body was kept in a gompa in Kathmandu before the funeral on 23 September.
His funeral was held with national honours at Teku Dobhan, the holy confluence of Bagmati and Bishnumati rivers in Kathmandu, according to Buddhist customs.
The minister of tourism and culture, Yogesh Bhattarai, draped his body with the national flag, and a squad from the Nepal Armed Police Force presented a gun salute.
Sherpa had three sons and a daughter.