KATMANDU: An 81-year-old Nepalese man has abandoned his attempt to climb Mount Everest, leaving a Japanese mountaineer with the record as the oldest person to scale the worldβs highest mountain. Team member Dame said Wed
KATMANDU: An 81-year-old Nepalese man has abandoned his attempt to climb Mount Everest, leaving a Japanese mountaineer with the record as the oldest person to scale the worldβs highest mountain.
Team member Dame said Wednesday that Min Bahadur Sherchan returned from Everest because weather conditions were worsening late in the spring climbing season for the Himalayas. Sherchan was having financial difficulties and a government grant for his climb only came last week. Sherchan had held the record until last week when 80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura scaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) mountain. -- AP
80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, who became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, poses as he takes a break at Lukla airport while returning from camp 2 to Katmandu by helicopter at Lukla, Nepal, Sunday, May 26, 2013. Miura, a Japanese former extreme skier, told reporters at Kathmandu's airport that he was happy to have set a new record for oldest climber. He scaled the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on Thursday. A competitor, Nepal's Min Bahadur Sherchan, 81, is still on the mountain hoping to break Miura's record. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha) Share this article
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