On Monday the Foreign Minister of Nepal, Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, died while attempting to climb Mount Everest. He died while attempting to return to Base camp from Camp 1. The cause of death is unknown but it is said that he had been complaining of health issues. Had Upadhyaya been able to reach the summit he would have been the oldest man to have climbed Mount Everest at 82. The oldest man to have climbed Everest was Min Bahadur Sherchan at age 76.
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