The First Woman to Reach the Summit of Mount Everest
Junko Tabei (22 September 1939 – 20 October 2016), a Japanese mountaineer. She traveled across Japan's peaks and climbed some of the peaks of the western European Alps. She was not only the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, but also the first woman to ascend all Seven Summits by climbing the highest peak on every continent. In 1970, as a member of the first Japanese Himalayan women's mountaineering team, Junko Tabei ascend the 7,577-meter-high Anna Boolean peak IV. On May 16, 1975, she ascended mount Everest which is 8,844.43 meters above sea level from the southeast ridge route and became the first woman to step on the top of the earth. Junko Tabei's Life On 22 September 1939, Tabei was born in Rylee Fukushima, the fifth daughter in a family of seven children. At the age of 10, she began mountain climbing, going on a class climbing trip to Mount Nasu. And this trip cultivated her great interest in climbing and she made a few climbs during he