The Chinese were flying their airplanes over Mt Everest and had Chinese officials in Kathmandu. As he planned for the climb, Sherchan told reporters he wanted to inspire fellow senior citizens. He also said many Nepalese have established records on Chomolungma or Mount Everest, so it was only fitting that the record for the oldest [...]

“Chomolungma or Mount Everest this year became a political pawn,” he said with some frustration.
Sherchan just 16 days away from his 77th birthday beat the age record set last year by 71-year-old Japanese teacher Katsusuke Yanagisawa.
The 77-year-old man from Nepal is now the oldest person to have reached the top of [...]

His first found him within 194 metres of the peak when his team stopped to help a fellow mountaineer who was left for dead. Three years later, Bahadur Sherchan, a University of Calgary alumni, returned to Mt Everest to finish what he had started.
Now that Min Bahadur Sherchan has successfully scaled the tallest mountain [...]