How’s this for a secure world record? On the heels of 13-year-old Jordan Romero’s May 22nd summit of the world’s highest peak, which made him the youngest ever to summit, the China Tibet Mountaineering Association (CTMA), which controls climbing activity from the Tibetan side, issued new regulations on June 10 that ban those under 18 and over 60 from attempting the peak.
According to Alpinist.com, the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA), which already requires climbers on the Nepalese side of the mountain to be at least 16, welcomed the decision. The International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation (UIAA) also agreed with the minimum age requirement but protested the upper age limit, saying that many climbers over the age of 60 have had success on Everest and other high-altitude peaks, and that they bring a range of experience that’s absent in the younger generation. Bahadur Sherchan of Nepal currently holds the record for oldest to summit at age 76.
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