alpinist

73-year-old Japanese woman scales Mount Everest
Tamae Watanabe (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
May 19, 2012
KATMANDU, Nepal-- A 73-year-old Japanese woman climbed to Mount Everest's peak Saturday, May 19, smashing her own record to again become the oldest woman to scale the world's...
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING/ Alpinist Takeuchi wants to climb ...
Hirotaka Takeuchi will attempt to climb Dhaulagiri I, the 14th of the eight-thousanders in the Himalayas, in May. (Hiroshi Kawai)
May 04, 2012
Climbers determined to conquer the highest peaks in the Himalayas call it the death zone.
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