Japanese man climbs all world's 14 tallest peaks

KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Japanese mountaineer who was nearly killed by an avalanche in 2007 finished a climb in Nepal last month that made him his country’s first person to scale the world’s 14 tallest mountains.

“I have always wanted to climb mountains as long as I remember,” Hirotaka Takeuchi said Monday in Katmandu. “It was always my childhood dream to scale high peaks.”