Phanthog

Phanthog
Personal information
NationalityChinese
Born1939
Gongbo'gyamda County, Nyingchi, Tibet[1]
Died(2014-03-31)March 31, 2014 (aged 74-75)
Wuxi, Jiangsu[2]
Climbing career
Known forFirst woman to summit Mount Everest via North Face route
Updated on July 11, 2016

Phanthog, also known as Phantog[3][4] (Tibetan: ཕན་ཐོགས་, Wylie: phan-thogs) and Pan Duo (Chinese: 潘多),[1][2] was a Tibetan mountaineer. She is known for being the first woman to summit Mount Everest via its North Face route, the first Chinese woman to summit Everest, and the second woman to reach the summit, after Junko Tabei.[1]

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  3. ^ Gillman, Peter; Gillman, Leni, eds. (1993). "Women on Top". Everest: Eighty Years of Triumph and Tragedy. The Mountaineers. pp. 104–105. ISBN 9780898867800.
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