Thursday, 29 August 2013

The oldest and The youngest to conquer Mt Everest

Two more person reached the summit of World's highest mountain, Mt. Everest and put into the list of many world records which are created this year.

Yuichiro Miura : 80-year-old Japanese had become the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
  • Broke the record of Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Serchan- in 2008 in the age of 77 (who had earlier broken 2003 record of Miura only, at 70 years)
Team of Six students of Lawrence School, Sanawar, Himachal beacame the earth's youngest team to summit Mt Everest
  • Raghav Joneja : person in the team became the youngest Indian to achieve the summit at Fifteen years and 8 months.
  • Previous record was with Arjun Vajpai of Delhi who had been 16 years and 11 months as he achieved the feat
  • They - Prithvi Singh Chahal, Fateh Singh Brar, Guribadat Singh Somal, Ajay Sohal, Shubham Kaushik and Raghav Joneja (all students of sophistication X and XII )

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