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At 76 years old and 25 days away from his 77th birthday, Nepalese man Min Bahadur Sherchan becaming the oldest man to climb the 29,035-foot Mount Everest. He reached the summit of on the 25th of May 2008 and became the oldest person to climb the world's highest mountain.

He beat the record set last year by Japanese climber Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who scaled the peak at age 71. Sherchan was in good health and was descending from the summit, Chetri said.

The former soldier climbed smaller mountains before Everest and has been an active sportsman, Chetri said.

He said about a dozen climbers scaled Everest on Sunday following one of the busiest weeks in the mountain's climbing season.

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