"Japan climber Yuichiro Miura would be oldest to reach highest peak"
Absolute shockingly, an 80-year-old Japanese mountain climber who has had heart surgery four times is heading to Mount Everest to try for a third ascent of the world's highest peak and will become the oldest person to reach the top if he succeeds.
(Yuichiro Miura on the left side)
To move ahead with the story...
Yuichiro Miura climbed to the summit of the 8,850 metre (29,035 ft) mountain in 2003 and 2008 while he skied down Everest from an altitude of 8,000 metres (26,246 ft) in 1970.
Miura and a nine-person team will climb up the standard southeast ridge route, pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay when they became the first people to reach the summit in May 1953.
According to the white-haired Miura, the record is not so important for him before setting out for the mountain. But it is important to get to the top.
Fact-fully, the record for the oldest person to climb the mountain is held by Nepal's Min Bahadur Sherchan, who reached the summit at the age of 76, in 2008. In fact, a doctor specialising in heart ailments is in the team to keep an eye on Miura's health.
Quiet interestingly, the group hopes to summit in May.
(Yuichiro Miura on the right side)
An outstanding confidence an outstanding achiever...
To say more, Miura has skied down the highest mountains on each of the seven continents, and is merely following family tradition while his late father, Keizo Miura, skied down Europe's Mont Blanc at the age of 99. Miura continued saying that if we wish strongly, have courage and endurance, then we can get to the summit of our dream. He already has a new dream that he wants to ski down Cho Oyu, the world's sixth highest mountain at 8,201 metres (26,906 ft), also in the Himalayas.
As a concluding fact, maybe, when he become 85 years old, and if he stay alive, he want to climb and ski down Cho Oyu, as it's his next dream.
(On the top of the Everest)
Now, another fact to know that about 4,000 climbers have been to the top of Everest and about 240 people have died on its slopes.
Nothing can defeat success if one is determined to achieve our goal with our intense will power.
That's what a genius calls for!
All the very best for Miura!
(AW:Samrat Biswas)
