Nepal man, 85, dies trying to become oldest Everest climber

An 85-year-old man from Nepal died 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 Everest base camp, but the cause of death was not immediately clear, said Dinesh Bhattarai, chief of Nepal’s tourism department.

Mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha said the cause likely was cardiac arrest.

Sherchan, a grandfather of 17 and greatgrandfather to six, first scaled Everest in May 2008 when he was 76 — at the time becoming the oldest climber to reach the top.

His record was broken in 2013 by 80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura.

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