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Who else has made history at Captain Tom Moore’s age?

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

25 April 2020

9:00 AM

Oldies and goodies

Captain Tom Moore, 99, raised more than £26 million by walking 100 laps of the garden of his old people’s home. Who
are the oldest people to have achieved various feats?

— Yuichiro Miura climbed Everest aged 80 in 2013.
— Dr Fred Distelhorst climbed Kilimanjaro at the age of 88 in 2017.

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