Most men would consider themselves lucky if at the age of 80 they can make it out to the golf course on occasion. Not Yuichiro Miura. For him, only reaching the peak of Mount Everest will satiate his hunger for adventure.

Last week we reported that Miura, who hails from Japan, was planning his trek to the top of the world, and on Thursday he accomplished what he set out to do. At the age of 80 he has become the oldest man to ever scale the tallest mountain in the world.

"We have arrived at the summit," Miura said in a radio transmission to Japanese news agency Kyodo from the world's highest point. "80 years and 7 months. ... The world's most incredible mountaineering team had helped me all the way up here."

Miura already holds one record on Mount Everest as he is the only person to ever ski down the mountain. Additionally, he has also climbed to the utmost tip of the Himalayas when he was both 70 and 75 years old, proving that his latest climb was no fluke, but rather the product of a trained, focus mind.

"I'm feeling on top of the world," quipped Miura via satellite phone, according to Kyodo. "Even at the age of 80, I can go on and on."

The record was previously held by Nepal's Min Bahadur Sherchan, who in 2008 reached the summit at 76, one day before Miura scaled the mountain at age 75. Sherchan is planning to one up Miura once again, having already secured funding from the Nepalese government to make the trek, which he plans on doing very soon.

Despite the fact that his record will likely not hold for very long, Miura does not seem to have a care in the world. For him, overcoming one's own limitations has always taken precedence over some record.

"It is to challenge (my) own ultimate limit. It is to honor the great Mother Nature," he said. "And if the limit of age 80 is at the summit of Mt. Everest, the highest place on earth, one can never be happier," he said.

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first climbed the mountain back in 1953. Since then, around 3,000 people have made the journey to the highest point in the world. It is an especially dangerous trek, as two men died on the ascent just three days before Miura's record climb.