Japanese National Tamae Watanabe Became The Oldest Woman To Climb Mount Everest

Japanese national Tamae Watanabe, 73, on Saturday became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest breaking her own previous record, according to the trekking agent who organised her climb.
According to Ang Tshering Sherpa, the general sales agent of the China-Tibet Mountaineering Association for Nepal and chairman of Asian Trekking, that organised the expedition, Watanabe reached the summit of the 8,848m (29,028 feet) Everest from the northern side at 7 am Saturday. She along with three climbing sherpas and another Japanese had left camp three at 8,300 metres 8:30 pm on Friday.
Watanabe had earlier set the record of being the oldest woman to climb Everest in 2002 when she climbed the mountain from the south side in Nepal when she was 63.
The oldest person to climb Everest is Nepali national Min Bahadur Sherchan, a feat he achieved in 2008 at the age of 76 and the youngest person is American teenager Jordan Romero who climbed the mountain at the age of 13 in 2010.