Japanese becomes oldest person to conquer Mt. Everest

Japanese becomes oldest person to conquer Mt. Everest

TOKYO, Japan - High school students celebrate in Tokyo on May 23, 2013, shortly after Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese climber and the principal of their school, reached the summit of Mt. Everest and became the oldest person in the world to scale the 8,848-meter mountain.

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