Japanese Kenichi Horie gets celebrated at a yacht harbor in Nishinomiya, western Japan, Sunday, June 5, 2022, after he completed his solo nonstop voyage across the Pacific Saturday. Horie’s return to Japan, after leaving San Francisco in March, made him the world’s oldest person to complete a solo, nonstop crossing of the Pacific, according to his sponsors. (Kosuke Moriwaki/Kyodo News via AP)
TOKYO (AP) — Japanese adventurer Kenichi Horie at 83 just became the oldest person in the world to complete a solo, nonstop voyage across the Pacific Ocean — and he says he is still “in the middle of my youth” and not done yet.
