Yuichiro Miura -- the oldest man to ever scale Mount Everest<br/> <br />The 80-year-old reached the top of his record-breaking ascent on Thursday.<br/> <br />Miura, who has had heart surgery four times, first climbed Everest in 2003 and repeated the feat five years later.<br/> <br />He told his family by phone he had again reached the summit.<br/> <br />His wife had some words of advice.<br/> <br />"I think it's best if you just come down quickly now," she told him.<br/> <br />The mountaineer said the climb to the top of the world's highest mountain was amazing but that getting back down without killing himself was a challenge.<br/> <br />Miura was accompanied by three other Japanese climbers, including his son, and six Nepali sherpas.
