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Climbing Mountains Setting Record, And Getting killed
By KTM Metro Reporter
May 24, 2013: An 80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura on Thursday, May 23, 2013 became the oldest man to climb the Mount Everest breaking the previous record of the Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Sherchan that had set the record of climbing the Everest Summit at 76 years of age in 2008. Min Bahadur Sherchan currently at 81 was determined to set another record climbing the Everest again, according to nepalnews.com.
This year a record number of climbers reached the Everest summit. Hundreds of climbers reached the top of the highest mountain Everest: Sagarmatha in Nepali on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Among them were one Nepalese cine actress, and another Nepalese cine actor.
Climbing and reaching the Everest have been made easy by the development of technology. Icefall doctors build a path for the climbers. Mainly the Sherpas build the path for the climbers. They are called icefall doctors. Building path for the climbers is more challenging and life threatening than actually following the path and reaching the summit of the Everest.
At the same time, five climbers of the Mount Kanchenjunga have lost their lives in an avalanche met at 7,100 m on the way back to the base camp. Three of them were foreigners: one Korean and two Hungarians and two were Nepalis. Identify of the foreigners are not known yet but Nepalis are both Sherpa guides.
