Updated On: 26 May, 2012 04:48 AM IST | | IANS
A 73-year-old Japanese lady who climbed Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, this past week has been awarded by the Guinness World Records.
On Friday, Asian Trekking, a Kathmandu-based organisation, handed over a copy of the award of "Oldest Person to climb Mt. Everest (Female)" to Tamae Watanabe on behalf of Craig Glenday, Guinness World Record Editor-in- Chief, Xinhua reported.
On May 19, Watanbe and her team of four successfully scaled the 8,848-metre-high Mt. Everest from China's Tibet side beating her own record of being the eldest woman to have climbed the peak.