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Sunday 4 August 2013

Name the Oldest Women to climb Mount Everest?

Answer :- Tamae Watanabe
Related Facts

  • 73 year old Japanese woman. She climbed Mount Everest on 19 May 2012 to break her own record.
  • Height of Mount Everest in feet 29,029 ft(8,848 m)
  • Everest is in Nepal
  • Edmond Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to climb Mount Everest.
  • First Climbers :- Edmond Hilary (Newzeland) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) 29 May 1953.
  • First Women :- Junko Tabei (Japan) 1975.
  • First without Oxygen :- Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Petel Habeler(Austria) 1978.
  • Most Number of Climbs :- Apa Sherpa 21 times by 2011.
  • Youngest Person :- Jordan Romero at the age of 13 in 2010.
  • International Mount Everest Day :- May 29. It is on this day Mount Everest was conquered in 1953.