Tamae Watanabe

Tamae Watanabe, born on 21 November 1938 in Yamanashi Prefecture, is a Japanese mountain climber who twice became the oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. She began climbing at the age of 28 while working as a public office employee of Kanagawa Prefecture, and in 1977 she climbed Mount McKinley, followed by Mont Blanc, Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua. After her retirement she returned to her hometown, and in May 2002 she became the then oldest woman to climb Everest. In May 2012, at the age of 73, she broke her own record by scaling the mountain again. The oldest man to reach the summit, Yuichiro Miura, is also Japanese.