The man, Kokichi Akuzawa, said he woke up at 5 a.m. every morning for three months to train for the feat Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has ...

Kokichi Akuzawa almost gave up during his trek to become the oldest person to summit Mount Fuji at age 102, an achievement recognized by Guinness World Records after he reached the top in early August ...

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King Charles was charmed by Ethel Caterham, who at 116 is the world's oldest person, when he visited her Surrey care home on Thursday. The monarch's visit to the Lakeview retirement community came ...

The Sherman resident was then the fifth oldest-living person in the U.S. and the 19th oldest-living person in the world.

Kokichi Akuzawa of Maebashi, Japan, completed the assent on Aug. 5 Kokichi made the three-day journey with the help of friends and family, including his 70-year-old daughter A 102-year-old man just ...