He’s reaching new heights.
A 102-year-old man from Japan has set the Guinness World Record for the oldest person ever to climb to the summit of Mount Fuji for the second time.
Centenarian Kokichi Akuzawa climbed to the top of the 12,388-foot Japanese peak on Aug. 5 with the help of his 70-year-old daughter, her husband and some friends.
“I’m impressed I climbed so well,” the man born in 1923 told the Associated Press.
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“I was really tempted to give up halfway through,” Akuzawa told the Associated Press. “Reaching the summit was tough, but my friends encouraged me, and it turned out well. I managed to get through it because so many people supported me.”
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