Seventy-three-year-old Japanese climber Tamae Watanabe on Saturday broke her own record as the oldest woman to summit Mount Everest. Watanabe set the previous record at age 63 in 2002. On Saturday morning, she summited with a Japanese partner and three guides from . A 76-year-old Nepalese man holds the record for the . Watanabe and her team ascended from the Tibetan side of the mountain, and several climbers from the Nepalese side also reached the summit over the weekend.
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