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Min Bahadur Sherchan (20 June 1931 – 6 May 2017) was a Nepalese climber and former British
Gurkha The Gurkhas or Gorkhas (), with the endonym Gorkhali ( Nepali: गोर्खाली ), are soldiers native to the Indian subcontinent, chiefly residing within Nepal and some parts of North India. The Gurkha units consist of Nepali and ...
soldier. In 2008, the 76-year-old became the oldest person to summit
Mount Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at it ...
. He lost the record in 2013 to 80-year-old Japanese climber
Yūichirō Miura is a Japanese skier and Mountaineering, alpinist, who, in 2013, became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest (at the age of 80). Early life Miura was born in Aomori (city), Aomori City in northernmost Tōhoku region of northeast Japan on O ...
. Sherchan died at
Everest Base Camp There are two Base camp#Shelter, base camps on Mount Everest, on opposite sides of the mountains: #South Base Camp in Nepal, South Base Camp is in Nepal at an altitude of (), while #North Base Camp in Tibet, North Base Camp is in Tibet at (). ...
on 6 May 2017 while trying to reclaim his title. In 2008 Min Bahadur Sherchan beat Yuichiro Miura to the top by one day, and Sherchan tried to summit again 2013 but had to call off his attempt due to health issues. Prior to this the oldest was Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who at 71 summited on 22 May 2007. In this period, Nepal enacted a minimum age limit of 16 years old (there was no maximum), and a 2005 study found Everest climbers over age 60 had about a 1 in 10 chance of summiting compared to 1 in 3 chance compared to those under 60. However, those over 60 had a higher chance of dying including a 1 in 4 chance of dying on the way down among those that summited. Sherchan was born in
Myagdi district Myagdi District ( ), a part of Gandaki Province, is one of the seventy-seven districts of Nepal. The district, with Beni as its district headquarters, covers an area of , had a population of 114,447 in 2001 and 113,641 in 2011. Magar people e ...
of
Nepal Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mainly situated in the Himalayas, but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. It borders the Tibet Autonomous Region of China Ch ...
. His funeral was held in Kathmandu, Nepal.


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List of Mount Everest records This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", meaning to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest. Records Highest number of times to reach the summit ...
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List of people who died climbing Mount Everest Over 340 people have died attempting to reach—or return from—the summit of Mount Everest which, at , is Earth's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This makes it the mountain with the most deaths, although i ...
* Mount Everest in 2017 *
List of world records from Nepal This is a list of world records created in Nepal or by Nepali citizen. title https://www.guinnessworldrecords.es/world-records/tennis-racket-handle-and-ball-control-%E2%80%93-most-hits-in-one-minute Chitra kumar karki guinness world Records h ...


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