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Junko Tabei ( Japanese: 田部井 淳子, Hepburn: Tabei Junko, née Ishibashi; 22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016) was a Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest and first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent. [1] [2] [3]
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- 20 October 2016 (aged 77), Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan
- Junko Ishibashi, 22 September 1939, Miharu, Fukushima, Empire of Japan
Oct 22, 2016 · Junko Tabei was a pioneer of women's climbing who summited Mount Everest in 1975 and became the first woman to reach the highest point on each continent. She also wrote books, helped earthquake survivors, and inspired many female climbers to follow in her footsteps.
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Oct 26, 2016 · Junko Tabei, a Japanese alpinist who became the first woman to scale Mount Everest and to ascend the highest summit of every continent, died on Oct. 20 in a hospital near Tokyo. She was 77. The...
By Google Arts & Culture. 2-Junko Tabei. In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. As just the 36 th person ever to climb the mountain, Tabei’s...
Oct 22, 2016 · More than 40 years after she became the first woman to climb the world's highest mountain, Junko Tabei has died at age 77, according to Japanese media. Tabei was just 4'9", but she was a giant...
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Nov 10, 2016 · Junko Tabei, who has died aged 77 from cancer, described the summit of Everest as “smaller than a tatami mat”, a pleasing comparison from the Japanese mountaineer who not only was the first woman...
Oct 24, 2016 · Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb the world’s highest peak, has died at age 77. Tabei reached the 29,000-foot summit of Mount Everest in 1975. She was 35 at the time. She died on Thursday...
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