Accompanied by Dr. Kazhiko Hongo, Hulda Crooks adjusts a small American flag tied around a wooden cane as she reaches the 12,388-foot summit of Mt. Fuji, July 24, 1987. The 91-year-old mountain climber from Loma Linda, CA, became the oldest woman ever to scale the peak of Japan's higest mountain. (AP/Itsuo Inouye)