73-year-old woman climbs Mt.Everest


73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain, the AP reports from Katmandu, Nepal. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,850-meter-high summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on Saturday morning with four other team members. 73-year-old Japanese woman has climbed Mount Everest, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain, the AP reports from Katmandu, Nepal. Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,850-meter-high summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on Saturday morning with four other team members. Watanabe, a onetime clerk, had climbed Everest in 2002 at the age of 63 to become the oldest woman to scale the mountain. Source: Voice of Russia.