2000
Junko
Tabei (Japan) First
attracted to climbing at the age of 10, Japan's Junko Tabei began climbing in earnest in
1962 after graduating from Showa Women's University with a degree in English literature.
Since then, she has had a prolific mountaineering career, climbing over seventy major
peaks around the world. She is perhaps best known as the fist woman to summit Everest
(1975); in 1992, she became the first woman to reach the summits of the highest peaks on
all seven continents. Tabei has received numerous awards, including the Gurkha Dakshina
Bahu, the highest award in Nepal, and currently directs the Himalayan Adventure Trust of
Japan, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the mountain environment.
Mountain
Culture, The
Banff Centre | 107 Tunnel Mountain Dr | Box 1020
Banff, Alberta, Canada T1L 1H5
First
attracted to climbing at the age of 10, Japan's Junko Tabei began climbing in earnest in
1962 after graduating from Showa Women's University with a degree in English literature.
Since then, she has had a prolific mountaineering career, climbing over seventy major
peaks around the world. She is perhaps best known as the fist woman to summit Everest
(1975); in 1992, she became the first woman to reach the summits of the highest peaks on
all seven continents. Tabei has received numerous awards, including the Gurkha Dakshina
Bahu, the highest award in Nepal, and currently directs the Himalayan Adventure Trust of
Japan, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the mountain environment.
