“Grandma Whitney”

In 1987, at the age of 91, Mrs. Hulda Crooks, aka “Grandma Whitney,” became the oldest woman and oldest American to climb 12,388 foot Mt. Fuji, Japan’s tallest mountain. Six weeks later she broke her own record as the oldest person to climb Mt. Whitney, the highest peak within the continental United...

The International Journal of Aging and Society

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