73-Year-Old Tamae Watanabe became World’s Oldest Women to climb the Mount Everest

73-year-old Tamae Watanabe bettered her own record of being the world’s oldest women to climb the Mount Everest the world's highest mountain peak. The Japanese woman scaled Everest's 8850-meter-high (29035-foot-high) peak from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet on 19 May 2012 with four other team members.
Watanabe was 63 when she had created the record of being the world’s oldest woman to have climbed Everest. She had retained the title until she topped herself a decade later.