Arthur Muir, a 75-year-old grandfather who climbed Mount Everest this month, shared the moment that his achievement sunk in.
"So it's been this very deliberate progression where I've taken on bigger and bigger mountains and finally got to Mount Everest and tried to see what the mountain would give me at my age," he said."Nobody was really sure. By the time I got to the top I was so focused on getting there that I didn't really absorb what was happening until I got all the way back down to our last camp, Camp Four.
"So it's only now that this is soaking in. It's been a wonderful experience, but I'm as surprised as anybody, let me tell you." The quest has become such a part of his family's life that he even has a grandson named Everest, who was born during Muir's first attempt in 2019.The oldest person to summit Mount Everest is Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura, who was 80 when he achieved the feat in 2013.
"So I was aware of it, but it wasn't my main focus," Muir said about making American history."I was actually very concerned about making sure that I had the reserve energy, I had the ability to actually get down safely.""I was just surprised when I actually got there, but I was too tired to stand up," he said."My summit picture, I am sitting down."
He also wasn't the only record-breaker on the mountain this month, as Tsang Yin-Hung, 45, a former teacher from Hong Kong, became the first woman to reach the summit in under 26 hours, breaking the old record by more than 13 hours.Scott Stump is a New Jersey-based freelancer who has been a regular contributor for TODAY.com since 2011, producing news stories and features across the trending, pop culture, sports, parents, pets, health, style, food and TMRW verticals.
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