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Vítor Negrete (November 13, 1967 – May 19, 2006) was a
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and the first
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ian to reach the summit of Mount
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without supplementary oxygen. He was also an adventure racer beginning in 2001. Among many other adventures, he had crossed the
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and traveled from
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state to the southernmost part of Argentina–
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,
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– on a bicycle. As a
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researcher in food engineering, he helped to introduce pre-industrialized food to poor communities in the
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, south of the state of
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. He first reached the summit of
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on June 2, 2005, again on May 18, 2006, this time without supplementary oxygen, and died on the descent.


Climbs

In 2005 Negrete summited Everest, using oxygen after Camp 3.Everest 2006: Eight dead on Everest
/ref> He also summited
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in the Andes of South America.


Death on Everest

In May 2006, Negrete and his Brazilian teammate, Rodrigo Raineri, attempted to climb Mount Everest following the north ridge route without the aid of oxygen. On May 16, they learned that, while making a summit bid, David Sharp, a fellow
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member, had died on the mountain. On May 17, resting at Base Camp after a failed summit bid, Negrete told Raineri: “I am going tonight, without O2, without a Sherpa and without a sat-phone, since the batteries of the one I have are almost gone. I am going completely on my own. I promise I’ll be careful." He called for help on the way down from the summit, which he had reached by noon on May 18. His Sherpa guide, Ang Dawa Sherpa, went immediately up from Camp III and helped him back down, where he died soon afterward.


See also

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List of people who died climbing Mount Everest At least 310 people have died attempting to reach the summit of Mount Everest which, at , is Earth's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. The most recent years without known deaths on the mountain are 1977, in whi ...
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List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit The list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. Despite two hard years of disaster (2014 and 2015), by the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 ...


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Report of Negrete's deathPortrait of Vitor Negrete
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