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How old is the oldest women to climb to the top of Mount Everest?


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The oldest woman to climb Mount Everest is the 73-year-old Japanese woman Tamae Watanabe. She climbed to Mount Everest's peak on Saturday May 19, 2012, smashing her own previous record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain.

Tamae Watanabe reached Everest's 8,850-meter-high (29,035-foot-high) summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on Saturday morning with four other team members, said Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association in Nepal. In doing so, she became the oldest woman to scale the world's highest mountain.

Watanabe had climbed Everest in 2002 at the age of 63 to become the oldest woman to scale the mountain. She had retained the title until she topped herself a decade later.

The oldest person to climb Everest is a Nepalese man, Min Bahadur Sherchan, who climbed Everest in 2008 at the age of 76.
May 20th, 2012 at 2:45 PM
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