Posted on 05/07/2017 1:26:11 PM PDT by drewh
KATHMANDU, Nepal An 85-year-old Nepali man has died while attempting to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, officials said.
Min Bahadur Sherchan died at the Everest base camp on Saturday evening. The cause of death was not immediately clear, but mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha, who is at the base camp, said he likely suffered cardiac arrest. Shrestha could not elaborate due to a poor telephone connection.
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Sherchan, a grandfather of 17 and great-grandfather to six, first scaled Everest in May 2008 when he was 76 at the time becoming the oldest climber to reach the top.
Modal Trigger Min Bahadur Sherchan smiles upon his arrival in Katmandu, Nepal in 2008.AP His record was broken in 2013 by 80-year-old Japanese Yuichiro Miura.
Before leaving for the mountain last month, Sherchan told The Associated Press that once he had completed the climb and became famous, he intended to travel to conflict areas to spread a message of peace.
He had trained for months before the attempt, saying that he did not suffer from any respiratory problems and his blood pressure was normal.
Being born in the mountains, he said he had did not have any problems with high altitude or the low levels of oxygen there.
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At least at the base camp they'll send his body back down to his family...../....
Mount Everest is very, very good at killing people.
We’re moving to our farm and in re-doing the house there we put in all new appliances (first time in my life!!!) But the fridge had to be able to hold magnets. They actually make them now that are not metal and you can’t use magnets. Hard to believe.
I’m old enough and wise enough to know better than to ask someone to hold my beer while I try something. Either they will drop the beer or I’ll drop. It’s a no-win situation.
My kids learned to spell at an early age with refrigerator magnet letters. My Mom taught them. Before long, there were some off-color phrases and expressions. How else are they expected to learn? (They did some off-color work with Crayolas at the factory place in Easton, PA as I recall. LOL)
Great book. Vanity kills.
I got frostbite just reading that book.
That was an hilarious skit.
Man, that dude on the left must be one hardy mofo to climb Everest in a fleece and vest with no O2.
“Mount Everest is very, very good at killing people. “
And a lot who die never come off the mountain. Considerate of them to leave some color in an otherwise bleak landscape.
In December 1995, Col. Vaughan returned to Antarctica and climbed Mount Vaughan, named for him by Admiral Byrd in appreciation of his contributions to polar exploration. Vaughan was three days shy of his 89th birthday when he reached the 10,300-foot high summit.
http://www.americanpolar.org/colonel-norman-vaughan/
http://www.normanvaughan.com/
You know what sucks?
Freezer magnets only stick to the sides of my fridge, not the doors.
See!!!!
And because of the temperatures, they never decompose. It sounds delightful.
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