85-Year-Old Dies On Everest While Trying To Reclaim World Title

An 85-year-old ex-Gurkha who was attempting to reclaim his title as the world’s oldest person to summit Mount Everest died at base camp on Saturday.

Min Bahadur Sherchan was on a bid to reclaim a title that he lost to Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura in 2013.

”He passed away at the base camp today at 5:14pm,” Gyanendra Shrestha, an official with the tourism ministry said.

The former soldier became the world’s oldest climber to summit Everest in 2008 when he was 76, but he lost the record five years later.


Speaking to AFP this year before returning to Everest, the slightly hard of hearing grandfather said he just wanted to prove to himself that he could still make it to the top of the world.

”My aim is not to break anybody’s record, this is not a personal competition between individuals. I wish to break my own record,” Sherchan told AFP from Kathmandu in February.