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Image Related To: Amid rising deaths on Mount Everest, Watanabe becomes oldest woman to scale it

By Jennifer Rees

Khāndbāri : Nepal | 12 months ago

Tamae Watanabe, a 73- year old woman hailing from Japan, reached the summit of Mt Everest, becoming the oldest female to scale the peak and breaking her own record which she set around...

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