80 years old Japanese climber Miura sets Everest records.

80 years old Japanese climber Miura sets Everest records. An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer on Thursday became the oldest person to climb the Mount Everest, as Nepal's Min Bahadur Sherchan (81), who held the previous record, prepared to climb the peak Yuichiro Miura reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. Thursday; APF said quoting mountaineering officials and Miura´s Tokyo-based support team. Miura had conquered the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) peak when he was 70 and 75. Miura and his son Gota called them from the summit, prompting his daughter Emili to smile broadly and clap her hands in footage on public broadcaster NHK, the report said. "I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mt. Everest at age 80. This is the world´s best feeling, although I´m totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well." Nepalese mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha, at Everest base camp, confirmed that Miura had reached the summit, making him the oldest person to do so. Meanwhile, Nepal's octogenarian climber Sherchan, who set the record of oldest Everest summiteer at the age of 76 in 2008, is also in Everest expedition and expected to start climbing in a few days.