Kota Kinabalu: The recent viral summitting of Mt Kinabalu by senior citizen Buatin Blandong, a resident of Papar, was not his first. It was his eighth!
It's even more remarkable given that he's 90 years old and in excellent physical condition.
Apart from testing his own mental and physical strength, his motivation was to demonstrate that age is nothing but a number.
In May, Buatin turned 90 years old, and that eighth time he reached the summit, he told Daily Express he was overjoyed. He is also the oldest Malaysian to have reached the peak to date.
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