Junko Tabei, First Woman To Climb Everest, Dies At 77

Junko Tabei, first woman to climb Everest, dies at 77

Japanese media reports say the first woman to climb Mount Everest has died. Junko Tabei died Thursday of cancer at a hospital outside of Tokyo, according to the reports. She was 77. Tabei reached the summit of the world's highest mountain in 1975. In 1992, she also became the first woman to complete...

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