71 year old Vinson Massif climber
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January 29th, 2008
A 71-year-old climber has conquered Vinson Massif, the highest mountain in Antarctica, to become the oldest Japanese to scale the highest peaks on all seven continents, which have been dubbed the Seven Summits.
Tomiyasu Ishikawa, of Kariya, Aichi Prefecture, called his wife Masako, 71, on Sunday to tell her he had reached the summit of the 4,897-meter mountain on Jan. 21.
Ishikawa started climbing mountains in the Himalayas 20 years ago, when he was running a sports shop. In 1994, he scaled Mt. Everest to become, at age 57, the oldest Japanese at the time to stand atop the 8,848-meter mountain.
In 2002, Ishikawa, then 65, reached the summit of Mt. Everest using the Northeast Ridge from Tibet, becoming the oldest climber to conquer the world’s highest mountain via this route.
Ishikawa lost two fingers due to frostbite while making his way up Alaska’s 6,194-meter Mt. McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. By this time, he had scaled the tallest peaks on all continents, except for Vinson Massif.
But earlier this month, Ishikawa completed his spectacular mountaineering feet.
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Vinson Massif is the highest mountain of Antarctica, located about 1,200 km (750 mi) from the South Pole. The mountain is about 21 km (13 mi) long and 13 km (8 mi) wide. The southern end of the massif is capped by Mount Craddock (4,650 m).
It is in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, which stand above the Ronne Ice Shelf near the base of the Antarctic Peninsula.
The massif’s existence was unsuspected until 1957, when it was spotted by US Navy aircraft. It was named after Carl Vinson (also the namesake of an aircraft carrier), a United States Georgia Congressman who was a key supporter of funding for Antarctic research.
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