At 80, Yuichiro Miura showed that there's no retirement age for extreme fun. While he his Dad skied Vallée Blanche at 99 and managed to add a few more turns in Snowbird when he reached 100, the son is on his way to do even better.
Addiction to Everest? Probably as he got his taste for the tallest mountain when he skied down the South Col in 1970 with the help of his parachute. He took a long pause however, before he finally summited Everest when he was 70 and repeated the feat at age 75.
Today, he's done it again, all this in spite of a heart condition and a broken pelvis and thigh bone in a 2009 ski accident! His record as the oldest human to climb the roof of the world may fall when and if Min Bahadur Sherchan, the 81 old Nepalese beats him, but who really cares; this guys are some inspiration to all of us. So now, what's your excuse for not exercising more?
Thursday, May 23, 2013
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