KATHMANDU: An 85-year-old ex-Gurkha who was attempting to reclaim his title as the world’s oldest person to summit Mount Everest died at base camp on Saturday. Min Bahadur Sherchan was on a bid to reclaim a title that he lost to Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura in 2013. ”He passed away at the base camp today at 5:14pm,” Gyanendra Shrestha, an official with the tourism ministry who is at the 5,380 metres (17,600 feet) camp, told AFP. I wish to break my own record,” Sherchan told AFP from Kathmandu in February. Hundreds of climbers have been on Everest for weeks to acclimatise before making a bid for the top.

Source: The Star May 06, 2017 13:52 UTC