Nepalmountainnews Report | 25 May 2008
Min Bahadur Sherchan, a septuagenarian Nepali, has set a new world record of being the oldest climber to scale the world's highest peak Mt Everest.
77-year-old Sherchan leave behind Katsusuke Yanagisawa, a 71-year-old Japanese man who became the world’s oldest Everest summiteer in May 2007.
Serchan reached the peak at 8 am Sunday Morning at the in good health and was set to return to base camp on Monday.
In a message on a website for the 2008 senior citizens' Everest expedition, the veteran climber said he wanted to inspire his fellow Nepalese pensioners to look for a better life.
"I have vigorosity [sic] inside me and inside my life-philosophy," quoted bbc news as Sherchan saying.
"...I have commenced the great mission with a great vision in a great season (spring season) to fight against the mighty Mount Everest with my will-power of mind and clean energy of my heart."
Serchan said that he wanted to climb the mountain to encourage senior citizens for the challenging job and also to inspire the young climbers.
As many Nepalese climbers have set world records in mountaineering, so the record for the oldest climber should also belong to Nepali climber, he said.
Serchan successfully scaled the world’s highest peak Everest (8,848 m) along with a team of 12 Sherpas.
Nearly 2,500 people have reached the summit of Everest since it was first climbed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
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