May 29: Japanese mountain climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, 71, speaks to the Associated Press after returning from climbing the summit of Mount Everest to become the oldest person to scale it, in Katmandu, Nepal. Yanagisawa, a retired junior high school teacher from central Japan, was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old when he reached the 29,035-foot peak on May 22, becoming the oldest Everest climber and beating the record set last year by another Japanese climber, Takao Arayama, who was 70 years, 7 months and 13 days old.
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
My Hero
May 29: Japanese mountain climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, 71, speaks to the Associated Press after returning from climbing the summit of Mount Everest to become the oldest person to scale it, in Katmandu, Nepal. Yanagisawa, a retired junior high school teacher from central Japan, was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old when he reached the 29,035-foot peak on May 22, becoming the oldest Everest climber and beating the record set last year by another Japanese climber, Takao Arayama, who was 70 years, 7 months and 13 days old.
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I noticed in a special about Mount Everest that most of those people lose a finger or toe or part of an ear or nose or something to frostbite. Some are still up there frozen to death because they just gave out to exhaustion and retrieving their bodies is said to be impossible. This guy seems to have all of his distal extremities and parts. I think he's my current hero as well. Amazing!
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