It may seem a little early, but the 2010 Everest season is just around the corner. I have started my annual coverage with a short introduction to the season on it’s very own Blog. As always, I will cover the climbers and teams as they spend spring making their way up the mountain targeting a late May summits from both sides. Read more on the Everest 2010 Blog.
Dec 052009
Nov 242009
One never to give up, the former record holder for the oldest Everest summit, Japanese Yuichiro Miura, is now targeting another summit at age 80 – in 2013. This according to a report today from AFP. He wants to climb the north this time after previously completing two successful south-side climbs. Late last week he lost his record to Nepalese Min Bahadur Sherchan who produced birth certificates to verify his claim that he was the oldest person to top out Everest with his summit last year. He was 76 at the time. Miura-san is most famous for being the man continue reading
Oldest Everest Summiter – dejavu
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Nov 232009
Records are meant to be made and broken – but not over and over for the same record with the same people. As I reported during the 2009 spring season, many records were established for youngest, fastest, etc. And for the oldest person to summit Everest, I wrote: The oldest was 76-year-old Bahadur Sherchan, from Nepal on May 26, 2008. However Japanese Yuichiro Miura (the man who skied down Everest) has now been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the oldest summitter at age 75 since Mr. Sherchan could not prove his birth date. Tamae Watanabe continue reading
Oct 142009
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