Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest in 2013, at the age of 80. He was also the first person, at age 38, to ski down Mount Everest by slowing his descent with a parachute. Pushing limits defined his life. Dubbed the Godfather of Extreme Skiing, Miura was motivated by “the joy of forgetting yourself and becoming one with the mountains.” Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.
Yuichiro Miura, Godfather of Extreme Skiing, devoted his life to pushing the limits
Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die
