LITE 98.7 » mount everest http://lite987.com The Best Variety Of Yesterday And Today Tue, 21 May 2013 15:33:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 73-Year-Old Japanese Woman Climbs Mount Everest http://lite987.com/73-year-old-woman-climbs-mount-everest/ http://lite987.com/73-year-old-woman-climbs-mount-everest/#comments Wed, 23 May 2012 19:09:17 +0000 Jeremy Taylor http://thefw.com/?p=123949 In 2002, 63-year-old Japanese women Tamae Watanabe scaled Mount Everest. In doing so, the former office worker became the oldest woman to reach the famed mountain’s 29,035-foot-high summit.

That record stood until Saturday. That’s when Watanabe, now 73, set it again.

]]> http://lite987.com/73-year-old-woman-climbs-mount-everest/feed/ 0 Hulton Archive Oldest Woman to Scale Mount Everest Scales Mount Everest Again http://lite987.com/oldest-woman-to-scale-mount-everest-scales-mount-everest-again/ http://lite987.com/oldest-woman-to-scale-mount-everest-scales-mount-everest-again/#comments Mon, 21 May 2012 19:01:42 +0000 Danny Gallagher http://thefw.com/?p=123555 You can’t keep a good woman down. Apparently, neither can the mighty Mount Everest.

Tamae Watanabe, 73, of Japan broke the world record by becoming the oldest woman in history to climb the world’s highest mountain. She decided that breaking the world record once wasn’t good enough for her. So she climbed it again.

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