Kyodo News Refusing to rest on his laurels, professional skier and adventurer Yuichiro Miura plans to scale the world's highest mountain in 2003 after turning 70.
Miura holds the record for skiing down the slopes of the highest peaks on the world's seven continents, including the 8,000-meter South Col of Mount Everest in 1970.
His extraordinary achievements also include skiing down Australia's Mount Kosciusko (2,230 meters) in 1966 and Mount McKinley (6,194 meters) in Alaska in 1967, and climbing and skiing Mount Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters) in Africa in 1981, Vinson Massif (5,140 meters) in Antarctica in 1983, Elbrus (5,633 meters) in Europe in 1985 and Aconcagua (6,960 meters) in South America in 1985. In Japan, he skied down the 3,776-meter Mount Fuji in 1966.