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KATMANDU, Nepal : A brief improvement in weather conditions has allowed the oldest person to climb Mount Everest to leave the mountain on a helicopter.   The aircraft picked up 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura at Camp 2 and flew him to the base camp and then to Katmandu on Sunday. He ...

KATMANDU: An 81-year-old Nepalese man has abandoned his attempt to climb Mount Everest, leaving a Japanese mountaineer with the record as the oldest person to scale the world’s highest mountain. Team member Dame said Wednesday that Min Bahadur Sherchan returned from Everest because weather conditions were worsening late in the ...

Nisha Adhikari has become the first Nepali actress to scale Mt. Everest! Adhikari successfully climbed the highest peak in the world on May 21, Tuesday after stepping on the summit at 8:00 am as informed by Tourism Ministry officials. The Sungava star and actor Arjun Karki had left for the ...

A British mountaineer´s interview with the BBC on his smartphone from the top of Mount Everest has stirred controversy with the Nepalese government calling the broadcast “illegal”, officials said Monday. British mountaineer Daniel Thomas Hughes gave a live video interview to the BBC on his smartphone from the 8,848-metres (29,029-feet) peak ...

An 80-year-old Japanese climber has launched his bid to become the oldest person ever to reach the summit of Mount Everest, his management office said today. If all goes as planned, Yuichiro Miura will conquer the world’s highest peak around May 24 to break the record held by Nepali climber ...