KATHMANDU Masayasu Taruki, a 64-year-old Japanese printer seeking to become the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, gave up Tuesday just 248 meters (820 feet) from the summit of the world's highest peak, climbing sources said. Two other Japanese climbers with Taruki reached the top from the northern Tibetan route. The oldest climber to scale Mount Everest is a 60-year-old Spaniard living in Venezuela who according to the Guinness Book of Records reached the summit in 1993.

(AFP)