Ang Rita, popularly known as the ‘Snow Leopard’ for his mountaineering activities, was suffering from liver and brain ailment. However, the exact reason for his death is not yet known.

Sherpa has received two Guinness World Records certificates:

1) First Winter Climb of Mt. Everest Without Supplement Oxygen

On December 22, 1987, Sherpa set off from the base camp to successfully climb Mt. Everest without bottled oxygen.

2) Most Climbs of Mt. Everest Without Supplement Oxygen

Ang Rita climbed Mt. Everest 10 times between May 7, 1983, and May 23, 1996, all without bottled oxygen.

Sherpa started working as a low altitude porter for the Dhaulagiri expedition at the age of 15 to support his family. Eventually, he became high altitude porter, carrying loads up to Camp III, without shoes and climbing gear.

Later, he was offered a job as a high-altitude Sherpa porter for a Swiss expedition in Dhaulagiri, which he calls a turning point in his mountaineering profession. He started accompanying international climbers and celebrities as a guide. Some of them include,

• Camp IV of the Mt. Everest with a British Army expedition
• Scaled Mt. Everest on May 7, 1983, while assisting a German American expedition
• Made his first winter climb during the 1987/88 season while assisting a South Korean expedition
• Scaled Mt. Everest on October 10, 1988, with a Catalan team
• Scaled Mt. Everest in 1990 while assisting the first all-Nepali Army expedition
• Accompanied the first successful Chilean expedition to Mt. Everest in the spring of 1992
• Accompanied a Spanish team to the top of Mt. Everest in 1993
• Helped a Russian-Ingosethian expedition to the Peak in 1995
• Accompanied the first Swedish expedition to Mt. Everest in 1996

Ang Rita Sherpa was born in 1949 in Solukhumbu.

PM Oli Expresses Grief Over the Demise of Snow Leopard

Nepali Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli has expressed his condolences over the death of the legendary mountaineer Ang Rita Sherpa.

“Very saddened by the passing away of Ang Rita Sherpa, who set the world record by climbing the Sagarmatha 10 times without supplementary oxygen. I pay tribute to him and express my profound condolences to the grief-stricken family and well-wishes at this hour of sorrow. His feat would always be remembered,” twitted PM Oli.

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For the first time in the history of Everest climbing, Nepal conducted the mega Everest Clean-up Drive for over a month in the last spring season.

In coordination with the government and private agencies, the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation conducted the cleaning campaign on the mountain from April 14 – May 29, 2019.

Twelve trained Sherpa climbers, including ice-fall doctors, collected approximately 10,386 kg of garbage from the mountain.

Of the total trash collected, 5,049 kg were recycled (including glass, plastic bottles, and aluminum cans), but the remaining non-recyclable material had to be incinerated or sent to landfill.

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Around 5,700 kg of the total litter was collected from base camp, high camps, old Khumbu Icefall route, and other settlements of the mountain.

“The largest clean-up of Mt. Everest saw 10,386 kg of garbage collection from the mountain by 12 Sherpas between 14 April to 29 May 2019,” read the GWR certificate.

“The most common types of litter retrieved were wrappers, thermo-insulation linings and broken glass,” informed Meera Acharya, Spokesperson at the Department of Tourism (DoT).

According to DoT, the Nepali Government spent NPR 27 million for the cleaning program.

Apart from the garbage, the Sherpas also retrieved four bodies of climbers who had died while climbing Mt. Everest.

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The Ministry of Forests and Environment, the Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, the Nepali Army, the Nepal Mountaineering Association and the Nepal Tourism Board are some agencies that assisted the cleaning campaign.

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In such a move, dozens of volunteers from Nepal are presenting to the world the largest sculpture of plastic bags they made in an on open ground in Kathmandu‘s city center.

With around 10,000 plastic bags collected from the Kathmandu area, the volunteers prepared a map of the Dead Sea to raise awareness on how the harmful plastic waste are polluting the world’s oceans.

Themed as “One Dead Sea is enough for us” to set a new international record, this record was made with the colorful used plastic bags tied to a 65-feet-long and 16-feet-tall metal grid, all together shaped into the Dead Sea.

“We decided to tie plastic bags and make a sculpture of the Dead Sea to spread awareness over the world to minimize waste of plastic,” Surgeon BC of Stem Foundation Nepal, the organizer of the event.

As per the research findings, around 2-5% of plastics wind up in the oceans, where it further breaks down into tiny particles affecting the marine life.

“We hope this effort will help to keep seas clean and not let them become another dead sea,” adds BC.

The new creation is a result of 150 volunteers’ hard work that lasted for months in collecting plastic bags from school and other public areas.

“I had heard the news that plastic was found inside a dead whale, so I felt I should join this initiative to spread awareness around the world and in my country,” says a 20-year-old environment student Prakriti Pandey, one of the participants.

The team will next submit its claim of the international record, along with a video evidence, to Guinness.

According to the Guinness World Records, the last such record for the world’s largest sculpture of plastic bags was set in April 2012 by over 200 Singaporean volunteers who presented 68,000 plastic bags in the form of an octopus.

Hope the collective efforts will reach the global community and raise needed awareness on ways to curb plastic production and usage, currently at more than 400 million tons per year.

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Dancing continuously for surprising 126 hours, Bandana made a new Guinness World Record in the ‘Longest Dancing Marathon by an Individual’ category.

Bandana, who began her solo dance performance on November 23, 2018 continued doing so till November 28, 2018 afternoon with a strong determination to set the record, say the event management officials.

Bandana did this stunning performance in Nepali music in the hall of Big Foodland restaurant in Kathmandu, amid the presence of her family members, general public and media.

With this performance, Bandana smashed the existing longest-hour dance record of the Indian dancer Kalamandalam Hemalatha, who danced continuously for 123 hours and 15 minutes in 2011.

The most laudable part of Bandana’s stage show was her smile that remained the same throughout the performance, despite restlessness, lack of diet and physical strain.

“I am very glad to see my daughter being able to keep the world record. This achievement is not just of hers, but she has also set the nation’s name at the global front. It’s a moment of pride for all of us,” said Ram Nepal, Bandana’s father.

Ram went on to say that his daughter’s performance should inspire many other Nepali citizens, especially girls and women, to dream big in life.

This on-stage performance of Bandana was the result of her rehearsals for more than 100 hours before the program day.

As the event coordinators say, Bandana danced only in Nepali songs with an aim to promote Nepali culture, globally.

The event management team has already begun submitting their process of submitting Bandana’s dance evidences to the Guinness World Records for final certificate, which is most likely expected in a month’s time.

About Bandana in Brief
Bandana hails from Dhankuta in the eastern district of Nepal.

Beginning with her dancing passion at the age of five, Bandana went on further to get trained both in Nepal and India. However, her first practice began with her brother, say Bandana’s family members.

“In our generation, it was difficult for women to even dance or smile publicly, but now time has changed. I feel so proud of my granddaughter that she has been able to keep her name globally,” says Bandana’s 63-year-old grandmother elated at Bandana’s performance.

Bandana is currently pursuing Business Management course in Grade-12 in Kathmandu.

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On the day, thousands of Nepalese gathered in Kathmandu to observe mass prayers reciting the holy Dhammapad, Buddhists’ holy book that is a collection of sayings of Lord Buddha.

Nepalis from all walks of life, around 75,000 in number and yet to be confirmed by Guinness Book, gathered at Kathmandu’s largest open square Tundikhel to take part in the procession.

Under the theme ‘Buddha was Born in Nepal’, the event saw participation of famous Nepali personalities like Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli and other high-profile government officials such as Defense Minister Ishwor Pokharel, CPN-MC Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal, besides movie celebrities Dheeraj Rai, Nikhil Upreti and Rajesh Hamal.

The participants called this a move towards promoting peace and harmony across the world.

According to the World Record Council Nepal, the event organizer, says the ceremony was aimed at spreading the stature of Nepal as the Land of Buddha and to create new Guinness World Record.

The program is being organized for nation and nationality and to spread Buddha’s message across the world,” read the organizer’s statement.

“Nepal is the birthplace of Lord Buddha, the country which has the height like of Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) let’s make it peaceful. We have adopted the path of prosperity let’s make it that way. Let’s make it happiest country in the world. I want to make a request with the world, the world leaders, the world government and all organizations to search for the solutions through dialogue or through peaceful way if problems exist, not the war,” Oli said in his address at the gathering.

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