77 YEAR OLD NEPALESE SACALES MT. EVEREST
Breaking the previous records set by a Japanese climber, 77 year old Nepalese citizen
Min Bahadur Sherchan on Sunday set another world record by scaling the world’s
highest peak Mt. Everest.
Spokesperson of the Senior Citizen Mt Everest Expedition, Nepal 2008, elderly citizen
08.40am on Sunday.
In 2007, seventy one year old K. Yanagisawa, a retired school teacher from Japan, had
created a record by scaling the world’s highest peak successfully. Last week, 48 year
old Appa Sherpa had broken his own world record by scaling the summit for 18th time.
According to officials at the Nepal Tourism Board, in this season about 220 climbers,
including 87 foreigners, have already conquered the summit till Sunday morning.
Around 3000 persons have scales mount Everest since May 29, 1953, after
Switzerland’s Edmund Hillary and Nepali citizen Tenzing Sherpa conquered the summit
for the first time.
-DR. NAVRAj singh sandhu, www.navraj@gnail.com