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

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

- 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

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

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

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