75-year-old returns safe from summit after becoming oldest American to climb Mt. Everest
By Binaj Gurubacharya
Mt. Everest climbers not deterred by COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic did not deter hundreds of climbers from trying to reach the summit of Mt. Everest, though the mountain was closed to climbers for a certain period of time in 2020.
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A retired attorney from Chicago who became the oldest American to scale Mount Everest, and a Hong Kong teacher who is now the fastest female climber of the world's highest peak, on Sunday returned safely from the mountain where climbing teams have struggled with bad weather and a coronavirus outbreak.