Vitor Negrete
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Vítor Negrete (November 13, 1967 – May 19, 2006) was a climber and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen.[1] 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 Argentina– 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. He reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 18, 2006, without supplemental oxygen,[2] and died on the descent.