World’s Oldest Person After María Morera’s Death at 117 Revealed

A 116-year-old Japanese woman who enjoyed mountain climbing in her youth has been named by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest person, following the death earlier this week of the planet’s dean of age, an elderly Spanish woman for 117 years, Reuters reports.

Tomiko Itooka was born on May 23, 1908 and lives in the city of Ashiya (western Japan), according to the Gerontological Research Group of the United States.
She is next in line for the title of world’s oldest person after Maria Branyas Morera died on Monday in a nursing home in Spain, according to the group.
Itooka, who is a mother of three, was born the year the first long-distance message was sent from the Eiffel Tower and the Wright brothers made their first public flights in Europe and America.
In the 1970s, Itooka often made mountain ascents and twice scaled Japan’s 3,067-meter Mount Ontake, on which occasion he surprised his guide by climbing in a pair of tennis shoes instead of boots, the research group also said.
At the age of 100, she climbed the stone steps leading to Ashiya Temple without leaning on a cane, the group added.
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