JUNKO TABEI

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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.