{"id":98065,"date":"2017-04-12T01:47:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T05:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=98065"},"modified":"2017-04-12T01:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T05:47:55","slug":"85-year-old-man-to-attempt-become-oldest-everest-climber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/12\/85-year-old-man-to-attempt-become-oldest-everest-climber\/","title":{"rendered":"85 year old man to attempt become oldest Everest climber"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_98066\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-98066\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mt.-Everest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-98066\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mt.-Everest.png\" alt=\"An 85-year-old climber is attempting to climb Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to scale the world's highest mountain.  (Photo: Wangpin Thondup\/Flickr)\" width=\"395\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mt.-Everest.png 395w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mt.-Everest-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Mt.-Everest-20x16.png 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-98066\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An 85-year-old climber is attempting to climb Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to scale the world&#8217;s highest mountain. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/exoticvacations\/31982883483\/in\/photolist-QJdCZz-dK2grP-8Npa1x-4NefQj-5sXKMB-RY9vya-54eZ5W-b7HwTp-ocgsaY-54Dvv6-b7Knb2-k2SBS-b7EMwv-5AMSYn-nLBVzN-5Cy9So-6Xs8qc-odqmaW-4WFUKa-4WFU4K-4WLaUU-4WLb7s-4WLbif-4WLbJJ-dCPnz1-b7EBEa-b7EQGe-dvvcMp-nSijWC-KYKy6-b5BrUX-7E1cPD-4WFTFi-4WFTGn-4WLbX1-4WFULK-5MG6eg-4WFUki-4WFTZ6-7TwxhY-4Rna5y-4WLb5S-4WLaTJ-4WFUEB-nLBdrL-61NzX3-KYqcG-7AhNiR-nWCGGR-bZwwyC\">Wangpin Thondup\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>KATHMANDU, Nepal\u2014An 85-year-old climber is attempting to climb Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to scale the world&#8217;s highest mountain.<\/p>\n<p>Min Bahadur Sherchan plans to climb next month during a window of favourable weather on the summit.<\/p>\n<p>The grandfather of 17 and great-grandfather of six had claimed the title when he first scaled Everest in May 2008, but his record was broken by a then-80-year-old Japanese in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Sherchan says he is confident he will succeed and the only problem he could face is the unpredictable weather.<\/p>\n<p>Once he is able to regain his record, he plans to campaign for world peace, travel to conflict areas to preach for world peace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KATHMANDU, Nepal\u2014An 85-year-old climber is attempting to climb Mount Everest to regain his title as the oldest person to scale &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":98066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[2295],"class_list":["post-98065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-mount-everest","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}