Tamae Watanabe (
Japanese , ''Watanabe Tamae''; born 21 November 1938, in
Yamanashi Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Yamanashi Prefecture has a population of 817,192 (1 January 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,465 km2 (1,724 sq mi). Yamanashi Prefecture borders Saitama Prefecture to the no ...
) is a Japanese mountain climber.
After completing study at
Tsuru University
Tsuru University (都留文科大学 ''Tsuru Bunka Daigaku'', literally Tsuru University of Humanities) is a small municipal university located in Tsuru City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. The university has around 3,000 students and 85 faculty. Th ...
she worked as public office employee of
Kanagawa Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kana ...
. It was at this time, at age 28, she began mountain climbing. In 1977 she climbed
Mount McKinley. She then climbed
Mont Blanc,
Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro () is a dormant volcano in Tanzania. It has three volcanic cones: Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira. It is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest free-standing mountain above sea level in the world: above sea level and ab ...
and
Aconcagua.
After her retirement she returned to her hometown and in May 2002 she became the then oldest woman to climb
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...
. Ten years later, in May 2012, she broke her own record, when she, now at the age of 73, again scaled Mount Everest.
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See also
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References
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1938 births
Japanese mountain climbers
Living people
Japanese summiters of Mount Everest
Female climbers