Japanese becomes oldest person to conquer Mt. Everest

KALA PATTHAR, Nepal - Yuichiro Miura stands at the summit of Mt. Everest at 9:03 a.m. on May 23, 2013. Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese climber, became the oldest person in the world to scale the 8,848-meter mountain.

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