Four heart surgeries were just an annoyance to Yuichiro Miura, who, at the age of 80, has become the oldest person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n
His achievement has eclipsed the record set in 2008 by a 76-year-old man.<\/strong><\/p>\n “I made it!” Miura said over the phone on Thursday in a call to his support team in Tokyo. “I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world’s best feeling, although I’m totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.”<\/p>\n Miura’s trek to the top of the world’s highest mountain this week was actually a three-peat. <\/strong>He conquered Everest when he was 70, and again at 75.<\/p>\n Miura was accompanied this time by his 43-year-old son, two other Japanese and six Nepali Sherpa category_ides. They made the final leg of the trip, climbing the so-called death zone, in seven hours.<\/p>\n The previous record holder as the oldest person to reach the mountain’s top was Nepal’s Min Bahadur Sherchan, who accomplished it at age 76 in 2008, just a day before Miura reached the top at age 75. Sherchan, now 81, told XXXXX that he is preparing to scale the peak again next week despite digestive problems.<\/p>\n Miura has already discussed his next venture – skiing down the Himalayan mountain of Cho Oyu, the sixth highest mountain in the world. He’s planning if for 2018 \u2026 when he’ll be 85.<\/p>\n This year marks the 60th anniversary of the first expedition to reach the summit of Everest: Sir Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay made it to the top of the mountain May 29, 1953. 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