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Alpinist aiming to complete 7 highest peaks in 7 continents

SAPPORO, Japan - Alpinist Nobukazu Kuriki leaves New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido on Aug. 17, 2010, for Nepal to climb Mt. Everest. By scaling Mt. Everest, Kuriki will have climbed the seven highest mountains in the seven continents.

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Alpinist aiming to complete 7 highest peaks in 7 continents

SAPPORO, Japan - Alpinist Nobukazu Kuriki leaves New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido on Aug. 17, 2010, for Nepal to climb Mt. Everest. By scaling Mt. Everest, Kuriki will have climbed the seven highest mountains in the seven continents.

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Teenager aims to paraglide from 7 summits

YOKOHAMA, Japan - Photo taken Sept. 21, 2013 shows Itaru Asano, a high school student in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, at the paragliding practice area in Ishioka, Ibaraki Prefecture. Asano paraglided from the top of Mont Blanc in September 2013, his first step toward flying from the summits of the highest mountains on each of the world's seven continents.

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Body of famed Japanese climber killed in Russia returns home

SHIZUOKA, Japan - The coffin containing famed Japanese climber Haruhisa Watanabe arrives at his family's home in the town of Mori, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 3, 2013. Watanabe, 31, died on Dec. 26, 2012, in a traffic accident in Russia's Murmansk region during a cycling expedition through Central Asia. In 2004, when aged 22, he became the youngest Japanese to scale the tallest peaks of the seven continents.

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71-yr-old Japanese climber listed as oldest '7 summitter'

NAGOYA, Japan - Tomiyasu Ishikawa (file photo), a 71-year-old climber in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, has received a certificate from Guinness World Records recognizing him as the oldest person to have conquered the tallest peaks on the world's seven continents, he said on April 12. The certificate says Ishikawa reached the summit of the 4,897-meter Mt. Vinson Massif, the tallest mountain in Antarctica, on Jan. 21 at 71 years and 60 days old and joined the seven summitter club, he said.

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71-year-old Japanese climber joins 'seven summiter' club

NAGOYA, Japan - A file photo shows Tomiyasu Ishikawa, a 71-year-old climber from Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, who reached the summit of Mt. Vinson Massif, the tallest mountain in Antarctica, on Jan. 21, his family said on Jan. 27. By reaching the summit of the 4,897-meter mountain, the chairman of a mountaineering association in Aichi Prefecture is believed to have become the oldest ''seven summiter,'' having conquered the tallest peaks on the world's seven continents.

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Watanabe becomes youngest Japanese 'seven summiter'

FUKUOKA, Japan - Haruhisa Watanabe (file photo), a 22-year-old Japanese researcher at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka, has become the youngest Japanese to conquer the tallest peaks on seven continents after climbing Mt. McKinley in North America, his family said June 17.

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Youngest person to scale highest peaks on 7 continents returns

NARITA, Japan - Atsushi Yamada, a 23-year-old student who has recently become the youngest person to scale the tallest peak on each of the world's seven continents by completing a climb of Mt. Everest on May 17, smiles at Narita international airport, Chiba Prefecture, on May 24 upon his return to Japan.

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Japanese student world's youngest to scale 7 highest peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Yamada (2nd from L), 23, is seen wearing climbing clothes with his supporters in this photo taken March 27 in Tokyo. Yamada, a University of Tokyo student, became the youngest person to scale the tallest peaks on the world's seven continents by scaling Mt. Everest on May 17.

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Japanese student aims to be youngest to scale 7 summits

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese student Atsushi Yamada (2nd from L), 22, poses with supporters March 27 in Tokyo before leaving Japan on March 30 for Nepal to try to climb Mt. Everest. He will begin the climb in late May, attempting to become the youngest person to have scaled the Seven Summits, the tallest peaks on each of seven continents.

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Japanese student aims to be youngest to scale 7 summits

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese student Atsushi Yamada (2nd from L), 22, poses with supporters March 27 in Tokyo before leaving Japan on March 30 for Nepal to try to climb Mt. Everest. He will begin the climb in late May, attempting to become the youngest person to have scaled the Seven Summits, the tallest peaks on each of seven continents.

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Japanese student world's youngest to scale 7 highest peaks

TOKYO, Japan - Atsushi Yamada (2nd from L), 23, is seen wearing climbing clothes with his supporters in this photo taken March 27 in Tokyo. Yamada, a University of Tokyo student, became the youngest person to scale the tallest peaks on the world's seven continents by scaling Mt. Everest on May 17.

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71-yr-old Japanese climber listed as oldest '7 summitter'

NAGOYA, Japan - Tomiyasu Ishikawa (file photo), a 71-year-old climber in Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, has received a certificate from Guinness World Records recognizing him as the oldest person to have conquered the tallest peaks on the world's seven continents, he said on April 12. The certificate says Ishikawa reached the summit of the 4,897-meter Mt. Vinson Massif, the tallest mountain in Antarctica, on Jan. 21 at 71 years and 60 days old and joined the seven summitter club, he said. (Kyodo)

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71-year-old Japanese climber joins 'seven summiter' club

NAGOYA, Japan - A file photo shows Tomiyasu Ishikawa, a 71-year-old climber from Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, who reached the summit of Mt. Vinson Massif, the tallest mountain in Antarctica, on Jan. 21, his family said on Jan. 27. By reaching the summit of the 4,897-meter mountain, the chairman of a mountaineering association in Aichi Prefecture is believed to have become the oldest ''seven summiter,'' having conquered the tallest peaks on the world's seven continents. (Kyodo)

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Alpinist aiming to complete 7 highest peaks in 7 continents

SAPPORO, Japan - Alpinist Nobukazu Kuriki leaves New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido on Aug. 17, 2010, for Nepal to climb Mt. Everest. By scaling Mt. Everest, Kuriki will have climbed the seven highest mountains in the seven continents. (Kyodo)

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Alpinist aiming to complete 7 highest peaks in 7 continents

SAPPORO, Japan - Alpinist Nobukazu Kuriki leaves New Chitose Airport in Hokkaido on Aug. 17, 2010, for Nepal to climb Mt. Everest. By scaling Mt. Everest, Kuriki will have climbed the seven highest mountains in the seven continents. (Kyodo)

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Watanabe becomes youngest Japanese 'seven summiter'

FUKUOKA, Japan - Haruhisa Watanabe (file photo), a 22-year-old Japanese researcher at Kyushu Sangyo University in Fukuoka, has become the youngest Japanese to conquer the tallest peaks on seven continents after climbing Mt. McKinley in North America, his family said June 17. (Kyodo)

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Youngest person to scale highest peaks on 7 continents returns

NARITA, Japan - Atsushi Yamada, a 23-year-old student who has recently become the youngest person to scale the tallest peak on each of the world's seven continents by completing a climb of Mt. Everest on May 17, smiles at Narita international airport, Chiba Prefecture, on May 24 upon his return to Japan.