AMAZING 80 YEAR OLD! CLIMBS MOUNT EVEREST
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Yuichiro Miura is a Japanese alpinist, skier, and adventurer who gained international fame for his incredible feats of mountaineering, including his record-breaking ascent of Mount Everest at the age of 80. He was born on October 12, 1932, in Aomori Prefecture, Japan.
Miura began his career as a skier and competed in the Winter Olympics in 1960 and 1964. He then turned his attention to mountaineering and became known for his daring climbs of some of the world’s most challenging peaks, including Mount McKinley in Alaska and Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.