World | Mount Everest 73-Year-Old Woman Scales Mount Everest Tamae Watanabe breaks age record, again By John Johnson Posted May 19, 2012 8:18 AM CDT Copied In this May 9, 2002, file photo, Tamae Watanabe, right, of Japan poses with a photograher on the foot of Mt. Everest in Nepal. She's climbed it again. (AP Photo/Office Seven Summits, File) A 73-year-old Japanese woman became the oldest female to climb Mount Everest today, reports AP. Tamae Watanabe reached the summit this morning with four companions after an all-night climb. Best part: Watanabe held the previous record, too—after a climb she made a decade ago. The oldest person to climb Everest is a 76-year-old Nepalese man who set the mark four years ago. (Of course, Freddie Wilkinson yesterday argued that real bravery is not climbing Everest; click to read his argument.) Read These Next Doctor left her Alaskan cruise and never returned. Trump "never heard" that "shylocks" is offensive. At least 13 people are dead in Texas flooding. Extremely rare bat-borne virus claims a human life. Report an error