Junko Tabei | |
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| 田部井 淳子 | |
.jpg) Tabei in 1985 at Ismoil Somoni Peak | |
| Born | Junko Ishibashi 22 September 1939 Miharu, Fukushima, Japan |
| Died | 20 October 2016 (aged 77) Kawagoe, Saitama, Japan |
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| Known for | First woman to summit Mount Everest (1975); first woman to ascend the Seven Summits (1992) |
| Spouse | Masanobu Tabei |
| Children | 2 |
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 ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.[1][2][3]
Tabei wrote seven books, organized environmental projects to clean up trash left behind by climbers on Everest, and led annual climbs up Mount Fuji for youth affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
An astronomer named asteroid 6897 Tabei after her and in 2019, a mountain range on Pluto was named Tabei Montes in her honour.
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