Record breaker: Tamae A 73-year-old pensioner has become the oldest
person to climb Mount Everest - beating her own record in the
process.Tamae Watanabe, from Japan, reached Everest's 8,850-metre-high summit from the northern side of the mountain in Tibet today with four other team members.
A decade ago she became the oldest women to reach the top at the age of 63 but tsmashed the record yesterday ten years after.
Ang Tshering of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association in Nepal said that all the team members were in a good condition.
They are now making their way back to the base of the mountain.
Watanabe and her team left the last high altitude camp located at 8,300 metres (27,225 feet) on Friday night and climbed all night before reaching the summit this morning.
Weather conditions have improved throughout the week making the effort possible.
Teams have begun reaching the summit even from the Nepalese side in the southern of the mountain, according to Nepal's mountaineering department.
Summit: A woman, 73, yesterday reached the 8,850-metre-high
peak - breaking her own record
Weather conditions have been challenging this year, prompting several expeditions to cancel their plans to try to reach the summit.
May is considered the best month to climb Everest, when climbers get about two windows of good weather for their bid for the summit.
The oldest person to climb Everest is a Nepalese man, Min Bahadur Sherchan, who reached the peak in 2008 at the age of 76.
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