Video: The oldest woman to climb Everest

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Hot Air: Jazz Shaw

6/30/12

 

This week, more than many in the past year, we’re all in need of more palate cleansers than usual. With that in mind, the interview with this woman should fill the bill. At the age of 73 she climbed Mt. Everest. For the second time.

 

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What really struck me in the video below was the humility of this woman. She seems genuinely surprised that anyone would want to interview her or that what she had done was in any way remarkable. She just… did it.

 

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Congrats to Ms. Watanabe. That takes a lot of nerve and she should be rightly proud of what she’s done.