Viral Video: Elderly Couple Fulfils Lifetime Wish Of Visiting Mount Everest
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Both of them look at Everest with eyes full of love, seeming like a dream come true.
Many elderly people feel like the world has moved on without them as they get older because they frequently outlive or lose contact with friends and relatives. Some people find it impossible to enjoy even the most basic pleasures, such as travelling outside of their own state or watching the ocean waves crash into the sand. However, they do have wishes which they would like to accomplish, like any other human in the world. In an instance of fulfilling, one's desires at old age, a couple from Maharashtra travelled to see the highest mountain peak in the world, Mount Everest from up and close.
In a video shared by Andy Thapa on Instagram, an elderly couple can be seen at the mountain while a chopper is parked behind them. The old woman assists her husband, who is also seen holding a walking stick. Both of them look at Everest with eyes full of love, seeming like a dream come true. The snowcapped view of the mountain in the short clip is breathtaking.
The video was shared on October 16 and since then it has amassed over three lakh views and 24 thousand likes on the social media platform. "Art of living.. this man age:86 in his last stage of life .. last dream to see mount everest from close.. he dared it with his wife.. completed.. hats off..long live," reads the caption of the video.