It's been another record-breaking season on Everest this spring. Fifty-four climbers, including 24 high-altitude Sherpas made their way to the top of the world's highest mountain after a much-anticipated break in the weather the morning of 16 May. Among the climbers were Tashi Wangchuk Sherpa, grandson of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, who became the first to scale the mountain on 29 May, 1953 with Edmund Hillary. On the same day Susan and Phil Ershler, became the first married couple to climb the highest mountains in seven continents and Nepal's Appa Sherpa maintained his record of the most ascents on Everest, after summiting Sagarmatha for the 12th time. There were quite a few women on top, too. Namche resident Pemba Doma Sharpa became the second Nepali woman to climb Everest from both the north and south sides, after she summited the mountain from the south side this spring, two years after her climb from Tibet in 2000. An all-American women's team fell 200 feet short of the summit, but another American climber, Ellen Miller, ascended, becoming the first American woman to climb the mountain from Tibet and Nepal. The spring also saw the ascent of Tamae Watanabe, 63, the oldest woman to climb Everest. A native of Yokohama, Watanabe broke the record a 50-year-old Polish woman set in 2000. A retired office worker, Watanabe has two other Himalayan giants under her belt-Dhaulagiri I and Gasherbrum II.