By Review Nepal
Kathmandu, Nepal: The octogenarian Nepali mountaineer Min Bahadur Sherchan, who was on his way to ascend the world’s highest mountain-- Mount Everest—with the aim to reclaim the crown of oldest climber of the world, has died at the base camp of the Mount Everest on Saturday afternoon.
According Gyanendra Shrestha, a government employee at the Department of Tourism, Sherchan passed away at 5:14 pm due to illness. It is suspected that heart attack would have a cause behind his death. However, the cause of the death is not confirmed officially.
The 86-year-old former British Gurkha Sherchan was on his way to ascend the Mount Everest to make a history as the oldest person to scale the Mount Everest.
Sherchan had scaled the Mount Everest in May 2008 at the age 76 years breaking the history as the oldest person to scale the world’s highest peak.
But his record was replaced by the Japanese national Yuichiro Miura. Miura had snatched the record back from Sherchan by stepping on the summit at the age of 80 in 2013.
