Junko Tabei
Age: 85
Miharu, Fukushima, Japan
Actor
Biography
Junko Tabei (田部井 淳子, born September 22, 1939 in Miharu – died October 20, 2016 in Kawagoe) was a Japanese mountaineer. She was the first woman to summit Everest on May 16, 1975. Junko was born in 1939 in Fukushima prefecture, one of seven children. Her passion for the mountains began after an excursion to the summit of Mount Nasu with her teacher
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