- Vitor Negrete
Vitor Negrete (
November 13 ,1967 -May 19 ,2006 ) was a prominentmountaineer and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of MountAconcagua , the highest peak outside Asia and one of theSeven Summits , from its south face.Negrete was also a prominent
Adventure race r since 2001. Among many other adventures, he had crossed theAmazon Rainforest and traveled fromSão Paulo state to the southern part ofSouth America -Tierra del Fuego -Patagonia on abicycle .As a
UNICAMP researcher in Food Engineering, he helped to introduce pre-industrialized food to poor communities in theVale do Ribeira , south ofSão Paulo .He first reached the summit of
Mount Everest onJune 2 ,2005 . OnMay 19 ,2006 Negrete again reached Everest's peak, the first Brazilian to reach the summit without supplementaryoxygen , but he could not make it down and died near Camp 3. He was 38 at the time of his death.External links
* [http://www.vitornegrete.com.br/ Vitor Negrete's Web Site - Portuguese]
* [http://www.mounteverest.net/news.php?id=2062 Report of Negrete's death]
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