Well done him and you
Another tick for us oldies, though at 5 years younger I'm a mere stripling by comparison
I admire and applaud his youthful attitude and hope to continue to walk and climb as he does for as long as my pins will carry me.
At the risk of much approbation I have never considered the AE much of a challenge, the scrambly bits are all pretty easy and the exposure is over-hyped in my view. Mind you I did it when you couldn't see 10 feet ahead for clag, so maybe I never got to see how exposed it was