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A 102-year-old man recently became the oldest person to ever climb Mount Fuji, the highest mountain in Japan

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 became the oldest person to climb Mount Fuji , Japan’s highest mountain.

Kokichi Akuzawa of Maebashi, Japan, achieved the towering accomplishment on Aug. 5 with the help of his 70-year-old daughter, Motoe, his granddaughter, his granddaughter’s husband and four friends from a local mountain climbing club, per the Associated Press .

The group began the climb to the summit — which peaks at 12,388 feet — two days earlier on Aug. 3, and spent two evenings camping en rou

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