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A 76-year-old Nepalese man has become the oldest person to climb Mt Everest, the world's highest mountain.
Nepalese Tourism Ministry official Ramesh Chetri says Min Bahadur Sherchan reached the 8850m summit early yesterday with his guides. He was in good health and was safely coming down the icy slopes.
Sherchan beat the record set last year by Japanese climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who scaled the peak at 71.
