Junko Tabei

Junko Tabei
Junko Tabei
田部井淳子
	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
Occupations	Mountaineer; author; teacher;
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 first woman to ascend the Seven Summits, climbing the highest peak on every continent.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Tabei wrote seven books, organized environmental projects to clean up rubbish 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.

^ "The Seven Summits". American Alpine Journal. 69 (37). 1995.
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^ Otake, Tomoko (27 May 2012). "Junko Tabei : The first woman atop the world". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012.

[1] "The Seven Summits". American Alpine Journal. 69 (37). 1995.

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[:5-3] Otake, Tomoko (27 May 2012). "Junko Tabei : The first woman atop the world". The Japan Times. Archived from the original on 29 May 2012.

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