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Associated Press

An 85-year-old Nepali died on Saturday while attempting to scale Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to climb the world’s highest peak, officials said.
Min Bahadur Sherchan died at the base camp on Saturday evening but the cause of death was not immediately clear, said Dinesh Bhattarai, chief of Nepal’s Tourism Department.
Mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha, who is at the base camp, said the cause was likely cardiac arrest but he could not give details because of a poor telephone connection.

The grandfather of 17 and great-grandfather of six first scaled Everest in May 2008, when he was 76 – at the time the oldest climber to reach the top.
His record was broken by then 80-year-old Japanese Yuichiro Miura in 2013.
Before leaving for the mountain last month, Sherchan said once he completed the climb and became famous, he intended to travel to conflict areas to spread a message of peace.
He had trained for months before the attempt and had said he did not suffer from any respiratory problems and his blood pressure was normal.
Being born in the mountains, he had did not have problem with high altitudes and the low level of oxygen there.
Sherchan’s love of mountaineering had begun in 1960 when he was assigned by the Nepalese government as a liaison officer for the Swiss team climbing Mount Dhaulagiri.
He later became an apple farmer and built roads and dams before settling down to run hotels in Kathmandu.


85-year-old aiming to be oldest Everest climber dies at base camp

Nepalese mountain climber Min Bahadur Sherchan. Photo: AP

(FILES) In this photograph taken on February 10, 2017, Nepalese mountaineer Min Bahadur Sherchan shows off his 2008 Guinness World Record certificate for being the oldest person to summit Mount Everest -- a record that was later broken in 2013 -- during an interview with AFP in Kathmandu. An 85-year-old ex-Gurkha who was attempting to reclaim his title as the world's oldest person to summit Mount Everest died at base camp on May 6. Min Bahadur Sherchan was on a bid to reclaim a title that he lost to Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura in 2013 when he perished. / AFP PHOTO / Prakash MATHEMA

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