KATMANDU – Two Japanese women are perched on Mount Everest looking to set the record for the oldest females to summit the mountain.
Tame Watanabe, 73, and Eiko Funahashi, 72, will wait for the best “weather window,” expected around mid-May, to launch their assaults, their organizers said.
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