Vitor Negrete, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Brazilian mountaineer
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Place of Birth: Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
About Vitor Negrete
- Vítor Negrete (November 13, 1967 – May 19, 2006) was a mountaineer and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen.
- He was also an adventure racer beginning in 2001.
- Among many other adventures, he had crossed the Amazon Rainforest and traveled from São Paulo state to the southernmost part of South America– Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia– on a bicycle.
- As a UNICAMP researcher in food engineering, he helped to introduce pre-industrialized food to poor communities in the Vale do Ribeira, south of the state of São Paulo.
- Negrete first reached the summit of Mount Everest on June 2, 2005.
- He reached it again on May 18, 2006, this time without supplementary oxygen, but died on the descent.
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