Records & People
Ang Rita Sherpa reached the summit of the world's highest mountain ten separate times, including the only winter ascent in history made without…
By Laxman Rawal · Jul 20, 2026
On 22 December 1987, a Nepali climber named Ang Rita Sherpa stood on the summit of Mount Everest in the dead of winter, in jet-stream winds and temperatures that can fall below -60°C, breathing nothing but the same thin air every trekker on the trail below…
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