Nepal’s 86-year-old mountaineer Min Bahadur Sherchan, who was once the oldest climber to scale the Mount Everest, died today at its base camp, leaving his dream to re-conquer the world’s tallest peak unfulfilled.
Sherchan, a former British Gurkha who aimed at reclaiming the crown of oldest climber to ascend the 8,848-meter peak, died at 5:14 PM local time while climbing, the Himalayan Times reported, citing multiple sources at the Mount Everest base camp, which is more than 5,000 metres above sea level.
He had left Kathmandu on April 16 to scale the peak. But the former soldier could not fulfil his dream to regain his lost title of being the oldest climber to scale the Everest.
Sherchan had scaled the Everest at the age of 76 in 2008 and recorded his name in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2010 as the oldest climber.