Another bloody Everest climber

A 70-year-old Japanese climber reportedly scaled Mount Everest, making him the oldest person in the world to achieve the feat, the climb organisers told local media.

A five-member team including Takao Arayama, who is aged 70 years, 7 months and 13 days, reached the summit of the 8,848-meter (29,028-foot) mountain on Wednesday morning, said the organizer, Tokyo-based Adventure Guides, according to Japan's Kyodo news agency.

Arayama was just three days older than the Japanese man whose record he surpassed, Yuichiro Miura, a professional skier who made it to the top of Everest in May 2003.

Arayama, a corporate management consultant from Kamakura, south of Tokyo, started climbing mountains in his 40s and has also scaled 6,194-meter Mount McKinley -- the highest peak in North America.