Yuichiro Miura, 80yrs old summits Everest

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Yuichiro Miura, 80yrs old summits Everest

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Very Impressive. Any way you slice it.

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Literally was just about to post this - and I'm just hoping to be able to make it up Quandary at 80!! :wft:
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Peter303 beat you by 19min on posting this.

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I remember reading a post a few years ago about an 80 plus year old woman who summit-ed a 14er...any idea who the oldest person is to do it?
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I'm only 62----there is hope for me!

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I remember reading a post a few years ago about an 80 plus year old woman who summit-ed a 14er...any idea who the oldest person is to do it?
I do not know who is oldest to climb a 14er, but William Butler climbed Longs at age 85 and Longs is one of the more challenging of the 14ers.
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Wait, isn't Miura the same guy who skied Everest in the 70's? There's a documentary about him.
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Im just hoping I can make it up Grays this summer. And Im 26!
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I've had numerous (now ex-) friends email this story to me since I'm 51 and failed to summit Kilimanjaro last year.
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screeman57 wrote:Wait, isn't Miura the same guy who skied Everest in the 70's? There's a documentary about him.

Yes, it says so at the end of the article
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It won the Oscar for best documentary in 1976. It's on youtube in 8 parts.
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That is a scary movie, listening to his breathing is intense. When I first watched it I thought I just watched a man die, more like falling down Everest, not skiing it. Climbing Everest at that age is amazing!
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