First Woman in the World to gain the top of the Globe: Junko Tabei
Ms. Junko Tabei on the top of Mt. Everest
Mt. Everest
By 1972, Junko was known as one of the best mountain climbers in Japan. Yomiuri Newspaper and Nihon Television decided to send an all-woman team to Nepal in order to challenge the unforgiving Mt. Everest. Fifteen women including Junko out of hundreds were selected for the expedition.
After a long hard training, early in 1975, they traveled to Katmandu, where they found nine local Sherpa people to guide them. They used the same route Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay took in 1953. By early May, the women camped at a height of 6,300 meters, and there they were resting when an avalanche struck their camp. The women, including Junko and the guides, were buried under the snow. Junko lost her consciousness for about six minutes until her Sherpa guide dug her out.
In 1992, Junko was the first woman to complete the Seven Summits.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei
http://homepage3.nifty.com/jtabei/
Web page of Embassy of Japan in Nepal)
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Comment by Taylor Llewellyn — February 20, 2007 @ 7:14 pm