Dalian Shell Museum

I and my wife walked up all the steps on the left side of the museum building, or about 300 steps. I posted about this visit a few times in October 2004.

More about climbing Mt. Everest

May 25, 2008
76-Year-Old Man Is Oldest to Scale Mount Everest
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 7:28 a.m. ET

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A 76-year-old Nepalese man reached the summit of Mount Everest on Sunday and became the oldest person to climb the world’s highest mountain, a tourism official said.

Min Bahadur Sherchan reached the 29,035-foot summit early in the morning with his climbing guides, said a Nepal Tourism Ministry official, Ramesh Chetri.

Sherchan was just 25 days away from his 77th birthday, Chetri said.

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.

A veteran Sherpa guide scaled Everest on Thursday for a record 18th time. Appa, who like most Sherpas goes by only one name, reached the summit along with several colleagues. He was among more than 80 climbers to reach the summit that day — the largest number ever in a single day from the Nepalese side of the peak.

Andrew Brash & Everest

Here is the link to an extraordinary site about a well known Canadian mountaineer!

And more information about Everest!

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