KATHMANDU (Reuters)-an 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer who had heart surgery four times is heading to Mount Everest to try for a third ascent of the world highest peak and become the oldest person to reach the top if he succeeds.
Yuichiro Miura has risen to the top of the mountain, 8,850 metres (29,035 ft) in 2003 and 2008. She skied down Everest from an altitude of 8,000 meters (26,246 ft) in 1970.
Miura and a nine-person team you get the standard path Southeast Ridge pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay when they became the first people to reach the Summit in May 1953.
"The record is not so important for me," Miura Canute told Reuters in the nepalese capital Kathmandu before leaving for the mountain.
"It is important to get to the top".
The record for the longest person to climb the mountain is held by Min Bahadur Sherchan of Nepal, who reached the peak at the age of 76, in 2008.
A doctor who specializes in diseases of the heart is in the team to keep an eye on the health of Miura. The Group hopes to the Summit in May.
Miura skied down the highest mountains on each of the seven continents and is simply following in the family tradition. His father Keizo Miura skied down Mont Blanc to Europe at the age of 99 years.
"If you want to strongly, have courage and strength, then you can reach the peak of your dream," said Miura.
Already has a new dream. He wants to ski down Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world at 8,201 metres (26,906 feet), also in the Himalayas.
"Maybe when I become 85 years old, and if I stay alive, I want to climb and ski down Cho Oyu," Miura said. "It's my next dream."
Were about 4,000 climbers to the Summit of Everest and about 240 people have died on its slopes.
(Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Editing by Elaine Lies and Robert Birsel)
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