Sherchan gets Guinness certificate KATHMANDU: After forcing the Guinness World Records to recognise him as the oldest climber to scale the Mount Everest, 78-year-old Min Bahadur Sherchan from Myagdi district in western Nepal has set his eyes on breaking his own record. He aims to ascend the highest peak in the world once again in 2014 when he turns 84. “The age of 84 is considered the incarnation of ‘living God’ in Nepal,” Sherchan said while speaking at a programme organised to felicitate him in Kathmandu today. Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal and Deputy PM Sujata Koirala attended the function. Though the GWR named Sherchan as the oldest man to scale Mt Everest some two months ago, the PM formally handed over the Guinness certificate to Sherchan today. “The oldest man to climb Mt Everest is Min Bahadur Sherchan (Nepal b. 20 June 1931) who reached the summit on 25 May 2008 at the age of 76 years 340 days,” the certificate states. Sherchan, a former soldier in the British Army, had to fight a lengthy battle to get the GBWR to recognise his feat. He had failed to submit the necessary documents to stake the claim on the record, which the GWR had awarded to Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, 75. But his efforts paid in the end. “I am happy to be recognised as the oldest man to reach Mt Everest,” Sherchan told the gathering. Sherchan wants to set up shelters for the elderly people, orphans and street children, establish a cosmopolitan intellectual shelter to study the environment of Nepal and launch a campaign to protect the earth from nuclear armaments and climate change. PM Nepal also lauded Sherchan for his success.