73- YEAR-OLD WOMAN’S EVEREST FEAT
A 73-year-old
Japanese has made history by becoming the oldest woman to scale the world’s
highest mountain, Mount Everest, topping a record, she herself set a decade
ago.Tamae Watanabe, set foot on top of the world on Saturday, reaching the
Everest’s summit at 8,848 metre, from the tough northern side in Tibet along
with another Japanese Norriyuki Muraguchi and three Sherpa guides, according to
the Asian Trekking which organised the expedition.Three other Sherpa guides who
scaled the peak are Mingma Sherpa, Pharu Nunu Sherpa and Phurba Sherpa.The
official said that the team had set out for the summit yesterday evening and
successfully scaled the summit at 7 a.m., local time, on Saturday, after a
night long ascent.
Ms. Watanabe
became the oldest woman to scale Everest when she climbed the peak in 2002 at
the age of 63. Her record stood till she bettered it.The oldest male climber to
scale Everest is a Nepalese Min Bahadur Sherpa, who reached the top at the age
of 77. He had climbed the Everest in 2007.Like Ms. Watanabe, Min Bahadur too
has announced his intentions to make it atop Everest again in 2012 at the age
of 82.
Prof. John Kurakar
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