81-year-old abandons Everest attempt to reclaim record

Eighty one year-old Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Sherchan has abandoned the bid to regain his previously held record of being the oldest person in the world to climb Mount Everest after falling sick.
Sherchan had held the record as the oldest summiteer to scale the highest peak in the world until last week when 80-year-old Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura scaled the 8,848 meter high summit.
According to Ang Tshreing Sherpa, former President of Nepal Mountaineering Association, the octogenarian Sherchan returned from Everest as he fell sick due to a minor injury sustained on his chest after�falling�on the ground and hitting a stone at the camp I situated at 6,100 metre altitude.

"I have arranged a helicopter for getting him back to Kathmandu as it would be risky for him to continue with the climbing at this age with the minor injury," Sherpa told PTI.
Sherchan was also experiencing financial problems and had begun his ascent only after government waived the royalty to climb the highest mountain peak in the world.
The Nepalese had made the record in 2008 when he was 76 years old and wanted to reclaim it by once again reaching the Everest peak.