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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.