US EditionJapanese climber, 102, sets Mount Fuji record
Kokichi Akuzawa, aged 102, overcame heart failure and shingles to climb Mount Fuji over three days, setting a Guinness World Record as the oldest person to do so.
- On Aug. 3, Kokichi Akuzawa was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest person to climb Mount Fuji, Japan's tallest peak at 3,776 metres.
- After recovering from heart failure and shingles earlier this year, Kokichi Akuzawa rebuilt fitness with early morning walks and near-weekly hikes.
- He ascended the Yoshida route over three days, spending two nights in huts, accompanied by his 70-year-old daughter Moto and granddaughter Yukiko, a nurse; his doctors were astonished by his quick recovery.
- Humbly, Kokichi Akuzawa said he would not climb Mount Fuji again and noted, `I am six years older than the last time I climbed`.
- Born in 1923, Kokichi Akuzawa's long record of activity includes decades of nearly weekly mountain climbs; as a retired livestock farmer, he volunteers at an elderly care centre and teaches painting.
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A 102-year-old Japanese with a heart disease became the oldest person to climb Mount Fuji, but yet he rested on the feat as if it were nothing special. Kokichi Akuzawa, born in 1923, reached the top of Japan's highest peak after climbing a mountain almost every week as part of his training. His achievement at the beginning of August was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records. "I am six years older than the last time I went up," Akuzawa told …
In January, he was in hospital with heart problems, and now he has set a Japanese mountaineering record: at the age of 102, Kokichi Akuzawa was once again on the summit of Japan's highest mountain.
A 102-year-old Japanese has become the oldest excursionist who has reached the top of Mount Fuji, a performance that does not represent "special" for him.
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