Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

- Tamae Watanabe

We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire i…

- Tamae Watanabe

I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

- Tamae Watanabe

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will s…

- Tamae Watanabe

The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriag…

- Tamae Watanabe

I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.

- Tamae Watanabe

In 1977, I climbed a fairly difficult mountain for the first time, which was Mount McKinley, in Alaska. I climbed the so-called 'American Direct Rout…

- Tamae Watanabe