JUNKO TABEI

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Junko Tabei was born in 1939 in Japan. She fell in love with nature at a young age when she hiked in Nikko National Park. By the 1960s, Tabei had scaled all of Japan’s highest peaks. She became the first woman to climb Everest and the first woman to climb the highest mountains on all seven continents – including Kilimanjaro, Denali, and Vinson in Antarctica. She remained a climber until her death in 2016.

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