Rodrigo Raineri

Rodrigo Chaddad Raineri (1969 to 2024) was a Brazilian mountain climber and businessman, born in Ibitinga and trained as an engineer at Unicamp. He began climbing at 19 and had wide experience in rock climbing, ice climbing and high mountain ascents. He was the first Brazilian to summit Mount Everest three times, made six Everest expeditions, and led eleven expeditions to Aconcagua, reaching its summit six times. With Vitor Negrete he climbed the South Face of Aconcagua, the only Brazilian pair to have done so. He also paraglided from the summit of Mont Blanc in 2009 and co-wrote a book on his climbing. He died in July 2024 in a paragliding accident in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, on the way to K2.