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                      Octogenarian Reaches Top of Everest

   An 80-year-old Japanese man has become the world`s oldest person to
   climb the world`s highest mountain - Mount Everest.
   Yuichiro Miura, whose website says he climbed Mount Everest twice in
   his 70s, reached the top of the 8,850-meter-high mountain on Thursday.
   But his record could be short lived because an 81-year-old Nepalese man
   is right behind him, preparing to climb to the top of Mount Everest
   next week. Min Bahadur Sherchan, a former Gurkha soldier in the British
   army, began mountaineering in 1960.
   The two rivals have competed before. In 2008, Miura reached the top of
   Everest at age 75, but the record of the oldest man to reach the summit
   eluded him because Sherchan had scaled the summit the day before at age
   76.
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