English Vitor Negrete
Vitor Negrete *1967 +2006
Oil and tempera on canvas
2010, 60 * 50 cm
Vitor Negrete (November 13, 1967 – May 19, 2006) was a prominent mountaineer and the first Brazilian to reach the summit of Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak outside Asia and one of the Seven Summits, from its south face.
He first reached the summit of Mount Everest on June 2, 2005. On May 19, 2006 Negrete again reached Everest’s peak, the first Brazilian to reach the summit without supplementary oxygen, but he could not make it down and died near Camp 3. He was 38 at the time of his death.
Vitor Negrete’s portrait is part of the “Top of the world” series.
Sources: Wikipedia, Report of his death