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Japanese lady, 73, awarded for scaling Mt. Everest

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.

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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.

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