In a busy week on Mount Everest, Mr. Min Bahadur Sherchan last week become the oldest person to reach the summit of the world. The 76 year-old Nepali – from the village of Tatopani – was assisted by a team of 12 Sherpas.
The following day Yuichiro Miura – a 75 year-old from Japan – also reached the summit. Before Sherchan’s ascent, Yuichiro Miura had previously held the record as the oldest summitter from when he had climbed the mountain back in 2003. He may have lost his record, but he has now become the first person to climb Everest twice in his seventies.
It is thought that 86 people reached the top of Everest on the same day – another record. No-one is yet thought to have climbed the mountain in flip-flops, carrying a piano or pushing a car, so it’s not become Ben Nevis yet.